German Community: LIVELY CHILDREN WELCOME AT THEIR FESTIVAL
The lively arts and culture of Germany will greet the lively children and parents of Richmond this weekend at the annual Richmond Children's Festival in Byrd Park.For the first time in the festival's six years, entertainers from a featured country will perform on festival stages -- which total a record- setting 10 this year. Hours are Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free.Laminerata Hamburgensis, Jugendblasorchester...
German Community: DEUTSCHTOWN STARTS BACK NEW SIGNS OF LIFE IN A HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD
Neighborhood revitalization usually begins with two things: dreams and determination. Both are in evidence in Deutschtown, a community tucked away between Allegheny General Hospital and the Heinz plant near I-279.Longtime residents remember that the neighborhood possessed a strong German community and amenities including several meat markets and drug stores. Perfectly replicating the past is neither possible nor desirable, but reviving Deutschtown, while difficult, is doable -- especially...
German Community: German cultural centre opens in Hungary
Budapest, 21st June: The Germans' House, a cultural centre of the ethnic German community in Hungary, will be inaugurated in Budapest on Wednesday [21st June].The ceremony will be attended by Ibolya David, Hungarian minister of justice, and Jochen Welt, German federal government commissioner responsible for German minorities abroad.Hungary's ethnic German community in Hungary numbers 220,000 to 250,000. From 1955 to 1992 their interest association was the...
German Community: MOTHER-IN-LAW'S RECIPE TREASURED ADDITION TO FAMILY
Back when Nancy Reichert of Myrtle Beach decided to make use of her mother-in-law's kuchen recipe she decided to triple it. Considering it was already doubled when he family recipe was recovered after a 10 year disapperance, we're talking a lot of German dessert cake.By the time Nancy Reichert's husband Sonny Reichert came home with friends he found his wife and their kitchen completely covered in flour. Not to mention enough kuchen to feed the small...
K-W Jews seek talks with German community : Growth of neo-Nazism worries participants at meeting
Members of the K-W Jewish community want to meet with leaders of the local German community to talk about an issue they haven't discussed in the past: neo-Nazism. "I have a lot of friends who are of German background and we have never talked about this (Nazism). We (the Jewish community) need to sit down and talk about it," said Paul Walman, a member of the Beth Jacob Synagogue and local representative of the Canadian Jewish Congress.The congress is the...