Stories
Stories are a window and connection into our past and provide insights that help us understand the present and future.
Please contribute your stories about Norka to help preserve the memory of our ancestors and the place they called home.
Please contribute your stories about Norka to help preserve the memory of our ancestors and the place they called home.
- The Krieger-Sterkel Story by Mary Lou and William L. Sallee
- A Tour of Norka in 1784 by Holger Finze-Michaelsen
- The First Year in Norka 1784/85 by Holger Finze-Michaelsen
- Peter Miller's Life Story
- Peter Miller - Norka and the Journey to America
- Johann Baptist Cattaneo Memoirs
- Letters to and from Norka published in Die Welt-Post (The World-Post)
- Henry Arthur Scheideman Story
- Interviews with Katherine Helzer Schnell
- The Railroad That Never Was by Alexander Schreiber
- The Fate of a Schreiber Family by Alexander Schreiber
- Is My Name Schreiber or Becker? by Steve Schreiber
- Ackerbestunde in Norka by Edith Müthel
- Christmas on the Volga by Melissa Hahn
- Diary of the Deportation in 1941 by Konrad Weidenkeller (Volk auf dem Weg Nr. 8-9/2021)
- The Peculiar Story of Heinrich Nagel by Steve Schreiber
- Recollections by Alice Bernice (Deering) Davison
- Adeline Nolde designed a familiar FFA emblem by Jerry Krieger
- Norka Wedding Customs by William Burbach
- A History of the Johann Helzer Family
- Memoirs of Johann Georg Schleuning by Inga Harder
- Sinner Family Letters
- Ripples through Time - The Albrecht Family Journey by Debbie Pietrzykowski
- A Primer on Western Canadian Settlement by John Althouse
- Christmas in the Colony of Norka on the Volga by Edith Müthel
- Norka, a Large Colony on the Volga by Edith Müthel
- The Naturalization of John Carl Lehr by Mike Meisinger
- Interview with Berta Schreiber
- Library of Congress American Life Histories
- Colorado State University Oral Histories
- Interview with Rachel Oswald (née George)
- Norka, Then and Now by Kari Rady
- Interviews with Henry Krieger
- Biography of My Father, Alexander Schreiber by Marie Schreiber Baker
- The Helzer's from Norka, Russia by Ellen Campbell
- Family Heirlooms by Delores Schwartz
- From Norka to Glory Hills by John Althouse
- Departing for the New World - A Time of Sadness by Milton Bauer
- Recollections of life in Norka by Edith Muethel
- A Most Unusual Discovery by Joanne Krieger
- Jacob Klaus by Lois Klaus
- Interview with Katherine Rudolph (née Weber)
- Memories of Norka by Conrad Brill
- Konrädchen by Roy Conrad Derring
- The Autobiography of Jacob Miller
- Wildfires by Marie Miller Olson and Anna Miller Reisbick
- The First Christmas in Norka, Russia by Steve Schreiber
- Heinrich Wacker Returns to Norka - 1928
- Successful Research: "Like Finding a Needle in a Haystack" by Rachel Holmes (née Krieger)
- Journey to Amerika by Carl Krieger
- Memories of Emma Urbach by Emma Urbach
- The Fire of 1771 by Jerry Krieger
- The Last Germans in Norka by Alexander Schreiber
- The Volga Flows Forever Trilogy by Sigrid Weidenweber (based on a family from Norka)
- Military Service by Joanne Krieger
- Titanic by Rick Wacker
- A History of the Krieger Family by Amelia Werre
- Bloodshed in Norka by Conrad Brill
- A Tribute to Grandma Weitzel by Marven Weitzel
- The Green Family Tree by Sally Braich
- Immigrant Conrad Schleining by Conrad Schleining
- Norka Tales by Gloria Yost Griess
- Journal of George Burbach
- Henry Krieger Story by Joanne Green Krieger
- Biography of Henry Krieger by Amelia Werre
- Journey to America by James Spady (AHSGR Journal, Fall 2017)
- A Tribute to My German From Russia Grandparents by James Spady (AHSGR Journal, Winter 2017)
- A Change of Identity? by Mark Wills
- An oral history interview with Dr. Russell Schnell, NOAA Fisheries website (April 2025)
Last updated April 1, 2025