Articles by Dr. Ruth Nielsen

Germans in Kazakhstan: Part of the Bright Multi-Ethnic Fabric

I read with interest The Astana Times  interview of Mr. Alexander Dederer, chairman of the Public Association of Germans in Kazakhstan.  I had written my doctoral dissertation on the Saga of the Volga Germans and recall Mr. Dederer’s connection to “Wiedergeburt,” a German ethnic union association. Germans came en masse to Kazakhstan and Siberia in…