ON THE COVER

The front page contains a poem that was in an issue of JERUSALEM NACHRICHTEN, a newsletter edited by Sue Kottswitz. Thanks Sue for permission to reprint it.

IN THIS ISSUE

"Huck and the Story of Rosa" by Rosa Pflaumer Sagel is another Aussiedler project story given to me and edited by JoAnn Kuhr of AHSGR International office.

GENEALOGY CHART

Since the last issue of Die Huckere I decided to order my HIXT surname genealogy chart from Dr. Pleve. I received it the second week in December, but haven't had time to study it as yet.

LAST ISSUE

You are probably wondering why no renewal notice for 1999 is in this last 1998 issue of Die Huckere. Due to the lack of information for future issues it has been decided to discontinue publication of Die Huckere. From time to time I hope I will receive information to perhaps publish an issue, even if only one page.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for contributing articles and stories for Die Huckere. All were gratefully received and I hope all of you enjoyed the publications. I look forward to seeing many of you at the AHSGR Convention in 1999 at Casper, Wyoming.

(Delores had included some Christmas graphics here, including two trees each with a star above it and some ivy. Once again, including them in the scanned page was not possible.)

HUCK AND THE STORY OF ROSA

Rosa Pflaumer Sagel

Translated by Jo Ann Kuhr

My name is Rosa Sagel, nee Pflaumer. I was born 6 March 1925 in the village Huck. My mother, Paulina Pflaumer, nee Schuckmann, was born 1889 in Huck. My father, Heinrich Pflaumer, was born 1890 in the village Nikolaevka along the Volga. My maternal grandparents were Jacob Schuckmann, born in Huck, and Katja Schuckmann, nee Pop, born in Balzer. My paternal grandfather was Friedrich Pflaumer, born in Nikolaev, and Tekla Pflaumer, nee Krajewski, born in Poland.

I lived in the village Huck until 19 September 1941 when we were deported. I married Ewald Sagel in 1951. He was born in Blumenfeld on the Wiesenseite. His father was Reinholt Sagel, born 1910 in Blumenfeld; his mother was a Meisner, born in Blumenfeld. Grandfather, David Sagel was born in Blumenfeld in 1891; Grandmother, Mar Katharine Biffel was born in 1892. My husband and I lived with his grandparents from 1951 - Grandfather died in 1974, grandmother 1982. [My husband's] father was taken into the Trudarmiya in January 1942, so the grandparents raised my husband.

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