Banat Files
Published at DVHH.org by Jody McKim Pharr
For Specific Village Information (See: Villages)
Last Updated: 30 Nov 2020
Banat Village Videos
Banat Reference Books (Published resources relating to Villages & Family Research)
Banat Villages with German Inhabitants
Serbian Banat Villages with German Inhabitants
The End of the German Banat Villages – The Anton Bedoe Zollner Series
Genealogical Digs: discovering our ancestral roots!
Romania Banat (Banater Associations & Local Archives)
Media & Newspaper Sources (Publications, video)
Neue Banater Bücherei by Anton-Peter Petri, 1982-1992
(New Banat Library Series Index)
Donauschwäbischer Volkskalender (kalenders explained)
Dennis J. Bauer’s Personal Genealogical Banat Book Collection
Banat Slide Show, submitted by Nick Tullius, 2014-Mar-16
Das Banat im Jahre 1971 (Driving Video – A journey through the Banat with the Bavarian Radio. A very nice contribution is to remember but also suitable for getting to know the Banat.)
Sackelhauser Musikanten: Banater Ländler (Banat musicians)
Heimattag 2012 – National Show date – Baden-Wuerttemberg – 27th May 2012 – SWR television – Heimattag 2012 – Country team in the Banat Swabians eV under the motto “Banat Swabians – Future with Tradition”
Stories & Articles
1924 Donauschwäbischer Volkskalender ‘Our Danube Swabian Banat Villages Have Their Own Character’
by Prof. Nischbach
1950, Remember Where You Came From
by Alex Leeb
Journey Into The Unknown “1983”
by Anton Bedoe Zollner
1971, Journey from Alexanderhausen to Ottawa ‘Sketch of a memoir’
by Nick Tullius
1904 – Excerpts from a Banaters life & village as a child & young women
by Laurie Ackermann Boyett
How that hat got on top of the church
by Nick Tullius
Danube Swabian Easter Customs
by Jacob Steigerwald
Threshing machines, steam engines and tractors
by Nick Tullius
Profile of an Americanized Danube Swabian Ethnically Cleansed under Tito
by Jacob Steigerwald
Life of a Schwob “A farmer’s daily life in the village”
by Alex Leeb
“Ratschen” Holy Week in Banat (My Personal Recollection)
by Nick Tullius
Rosemary in the Life of the Danube Swabians
by Hans Gehl
100th Year Banater Swabian in Austria 1907-2007
by Hans Dama
Banat Swabians, Danube Swabians & Their Future
by Hans Dama & Hans Gehl
The Danube Swabians …as seen in Claudio Magris’ Book “Danube” Reviewed by Nick Tullius
An Englishman Travels the Banat (mid-1800s)
by John Paget
On the Trails of Our Ancestors
by Anton Zollner
1912 – Destitute to America – Experiences
by Kurt Aram
1934, Emigrating to America
by Magdalena Jorch Dian
Fare Dodger
by Hans Dama
My Escape From Romania
by Herwig Stefan
Life in our new Heimat
by Helene Schuch
Memories of Our Resettlement
by Helene Schuch
My journey from the Banat to Canada
by Nick Tullius
Review by Hans Gehl | Review by Jody McKim Pharr
Villages Lorrains En Roumanie by André Rosambert – L’Illustration (French Magazine), Part 1: 01 Apr 1933
Villages Lorrains En Roumanie by André Rosambert – L’Illustration (French Magazine), Part 2: 24 Nov 1934
The Shadow of Herta Müller at the Nitzkydorf Cemetery
by Viorel Ilişoi,(From the day they announced on television that the German writer Herta Müller received the Nobel Prize for Literature and it was recalled that she was born and raised in Romania, many people in her native village are asking themselves what is the Nobel Prize and who is this Herta Müller? And if she is a villager of theirs and won one million Euros, what is in it for them? Herta Müller is an unknown in Nitzkydorf, the village she put on the worldwide map in a single day.)