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Remembering Albert Bartholdi Passaic's Swissamerican Historian, Edward A. Smyk
Remembering Albert Bartholdi Passaic's Swissamerican Historian, Edward A. Smyk
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For most travelers, Switzerland conjures spectacular images of the snow-clad Alps; a place where rugged, commanding vistas coexist with an abundance of pure mountain air, exhilarating in its alluring crispness. Yet there is more to the story than picturesque scenery and quaint villages, which time seems to forget. The Swiss are a proud people , who through the intervening centuries, generation after generation, carefully nourished and guarded their love of freedom and independence. This sturdiness of mind and intellect was transplanted to America with the early Swiss settlers. They came and prospered, achieving distinction in numerous fields of endeavor.
Book Review: Schweizer In Europaischen Seehafen Und Im Spanischen Binnenland. Biographische Skizzen Zur Emigration Und Remigration Seit Der Jruhen Neuzeit, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Operation Sunrise: America's Oss, Swiss Intelligence, And The German Surrender 1945, Stephen P. Halbrook
Operation Sunrise: America's Oss, Swiss Intelligence, And The German Surrender 1945, Stephen P. Halbrook
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Operation Sunrise was a cooperative effort of American and Swiss intelligence services which led to the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht forces in Northern Italy and Western Austria on May 2, 1945. General Heinrich von Yietinghoff, Commander-inChief of the Southwest Command and of Army Group C, surrendered nearly a million soldiers, the strongest remaining German force. This was the first great surrender of German forces to the Allies, and became a strong impetus for the final Allied victory over Nazi Germany on May 8, Victory in Europe (YE) Day. Operation Sunrise helped to nip in the bud Nazi aspirations …
Book Review: Affectionate Authorities: Fathers And Fatherly Roles In Late Medieval Basel, Kelly Ransick
Book Review: Affectionate Authorities: Fathers And Fatherly Roles In Late Medieval Basel, Kelly Ransick
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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The Love Story Behind The 1846 Swiss Colony In St. Clara, West Virginia, Marsha R. Robinson
The Love Story Behind The 1846 Swiss Colony In St. Clara, West Virginia, Marsha R. Robinson
Swiss American Historical Society Review
There are some stories that we want to believe . This is the story and history of Clara J. Levassor, of two Frenchmen who loved her, and of the Swiss colony around the town of St. Clara, Doddridge County, West Virginia. The story begins in the French Revolution .
Obituary For Lewis Rohrbach, Carol Rohrbach
Obituary For Lewis Rohrbach, Carol Rohrbach
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Book Review: Following Zwingli: Applying The Past In Reformation Zurich, Roshunda L. Belton
Book Review: Following Zwingli: Applying The Past In Reformation Zurich, Roshunda L. Belton
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: History Of The Swiss Watch Industry: From Jacques David To Nicolas Hayek, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia
Book Review: History Of The Swiss Watch Industry: From Jacques David To Nicolas Hayek, Victoria M. Breting-Garcia
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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The Italian Swiss Dna, Tony Quinn
The Italian Swiss Dna, Tony Quinn
Swiss American Historical Society Review
DNA testing is the new frontier in genealogical research. While the paper records of American and European churches and civil bodies are now generally available on line, DNA opens a new avenue of research into the period well before the advent of written records. And it is allowing people to make connections heretofore impossible to make.
My Grandfather: Soren Lorentz Lassen, Karen Lassen
My Grandfather: Soren Lorentz Lassen, Karen Lassen
The Bridge
Fifty-five years aft er my grandfather’s death in 1934, my two brothers and I gathered at his gravesite in Sault Ste. Marie near the Great Lakes. For the fi rst time, Soren Lassen was being honored by a family that he never knew. Although he had died long ago, his gravestone had only recently been put in place. I pulled the scissors I had brought out of my purse and carefully cut back the crabgrass that was already creeping across the new stone. Stepping back, I read it aloud:
Svend Lawrence
(Soren Lassen)
1864-1934
My Father, The Christmas Doctor, And The Danish Nurse Who Saved His Life, Tom Weber
My Father, The Christmas Doctor, And The Danish Nurse Who Saved His Life, Tom Weber
The Bridge
My father, Dr. John Peter Weber, was born to German immigrants in Creston, Iowa in 1888. At the age of eleven he realized he wanted to become a doctor. After finishing the eighth grade in 1904, sixteen-year-old John rode the rails to Montana to help lay railroad tracks, intending to save his wages in order to continue his education. Treated brutally by his foreman, he left the railroad construction job and traveled to Portland, Oregon, searching for work in the lumber industry. The young man from Iowa fell victim to a pickpocket on the streets of Portland. All his savings …
Danish Midsummer: My Bodtker Grant From Dahs, Kelsi Vanada
Danish Midsummer: My Bodtker Grant From Dahs, Kelsi Vanada
The Bridge
Though many Americans can trace their family history back to their European ancestors, I have met very few people outside of my own family who have maintained relationships with the branches of their families still living in Europe. I have always been proud of the fact that I know many of my family members living in Denmark today. These ties between the Danish and American sides of my family are strengthened every time one of us travels to visit relatives in the other country, so I am extremely grateful that the Danish American Heritage Society (DAHS) awarded me an Edith …
A Danish Lad In America, Fred Delcomyn
A Danish Lad In America, Fred Delcomyn
The Bridge
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” So said L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Looking back on myself as a young immigrant child in Detroit at mid-century, the phrase seems especially apt. In my past I was quite literally in a foreign country.
Prohibition Among Danish American Lutherans, Nick Kofod Mogensen
Prohibition Among Danish American Lutherans, Nick Kofod Mogensen
The Bridge
On January 17, 1920, a major change took place in American society. The Eighteenth Amendment went into effect and started the Prohibition Era, banning the sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933. Prohibition was not a uniquely American idea. Under pressure from temperance movements, most Nordic countries banned or severely restricted the sale of alcohol around the same time as the United States did. The Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, and Finland all banned alcohol during the first few decades of the twentieth century. Although a narrow majority of the Swedish people refused an outright ban in …
Social Narrative And Sustainability Of A Danish Diaspora Community In The American Midwest, Craig A. Molgaard, Amanda L. Golbeck
Social Narrative And Sustainability Of A Danish Diaspora Community In The American Midwest, Craig A. Molgaard, Amanda L. Golbeck
The Bridge
This longitudinal study (1972-2015) focuses on the largest Danish American speech community in the United States of America, which is in Audubon, Cass, Pottawattamie, and Shelby Counties in western Iowa (the towns of Elk Horn, Kimballton, Audubon, Harlan, Exira, and Atlantic). The sociolinguistic mechanisms (code switching, speech acts, storytelling) of Danish social and cultural narrative are identified and examples are provided. We examine the social aspects of sustaining identity and heritage in a now globally linked community, and note lessons learned for other communities seeking to sustain their heritage in a healthy and productive fashion.
Memories From Rudbøl, 1923-1927: My Teaching At Rudbøl Danish School, M.R. Mikkelsen
Memories From Rudbøl, 1923-1927: My Teaching At Rudbøl Danish School, M.R. Mikkelsen
The Bridge
All four of my grandparents emigrated from Denmark in the 1890s. The first time any member of my immediate family visited Denmark was almost a century later, when my wife Marge and I, together with our two sons David and Philip, went over to spend an eight-month sabbatical leave from Iowa State University in Denmark in 1981.