Henry A Fischer: 9 books
Dörnberg: in the Shadow of the Josefsberg
The Families of Somogydöröcske Somogy County Hungary 1730-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
In the past, the steep, majestic, heavily forested, and somewhat impregnable Josefsberg was the lair of robber bands and brigands following the expulsion of the Turks from the area and all of Hungary. In the future, it would become known as the Jószefhegy. It is one of the highest elevations in northeastern...
From Toleration to Expulsion
The Families of Ecsény Somogy County, Hungary 1784-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecsny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland,...
From Toleration to Expulsion
The Families of Ecsény Somogy County, Hungary 1784-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
On April 6, 1948, a significant portion of the population of the village of Ecsny in Somogy County, Hungary, was expelled from their homeland. This was the result of Protocol XIII of the Potsdam Declaration of 1945 calling for the orderly and humane transfer of German populations now living in Poland,...
Dörnberg: in the Shadow of the Josefsberg
The Families of Somogydöröcske Somogy County, Hungary 1730-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
In the past, the steep, majestic, heavily forested, and somewhat impregnable Josefsberg was the lair of robber bands and brigands following the expulsion of the Turks from the area and all of Hungary. In the future, it would become known as the Jószefhegy. It is one of the highest elevations in northeastern...
by HENRY A. FISCHER
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2004
Numerous histories and studies of the Great Swabian Migration of the 18th century have been written and published, and the tragic fate of many of their descendants in our own time has also been chronicled.Most of these are available in languages other than English.Much of that research forms the backdrop...
Remember to Tell the Children
Book Two: Strangers and Sojourners
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
As the 19th Century dawned, the pioneering days of the Children of the Danube were now mostly behind them.The new generation no longer thought of Hesse, Baden and Wrttemberg when they heard their elders talk about home.Home was what they experienced in their own insular village enclaves scattered...
Emigrants and Exiles
Book Three, Volume Two
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The isolation the Children of the Danube experienced from the upheavals of history in the rest of Europe would no longer hold true in the second half of the 19th Century and beyond. At the outset, Emperor Francis Josephs attempts to preserve the position of the House of Habsburg in the face of the...
Remember to Tell the Children
A Trilogy Book One: the Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006
The Children of the Danube were on the move again.They were the descendants of the settlers who had joined the trek down the Danube River in the Great Swabian Migration from Germany to the Kingdom of Hungary in the early 18thcentury.Perhaps like their forebears, adventure may have been the driving...
Emigrants and Exiles
Book Three, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The isolation the Children of the Danube experienced from the upheavals of history in the rest of Europe would no longer hold true in the second half of the 19th Century and beyond. At the outset, Emperor Francis Josephs attempts to preserve the position of the House of Habsburg in the face of the...