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VISITING AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE

JUNE 2007

Who is DVHH-Donauschwaben Village Helping Hands.

By Hans Kopp  

hans_kopp@hotmail.com

    Not to long ago in 2003 Jody McKim, a second generation Donauschwäbin, who only in 1999 discovered that her ancestors came from the Banat.  She is only one of many Germans whose ancestors came from the former Hungarian Kingdom of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, who are in search of an identity and who are interested in the heritage of their ancestors!  This was the motivation to create a website of the Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands, Non Profit, Inc., known as the DVHH at www.dvhh.org.  The all-volunteer staff of the DVHH are contributors, whose prime interest is to help fellow Donauschwaben researchers achieve the goal of finding the origin of their ancestors and to document historical facts of our people, their culture, traditions, social mores, as well as towns, maps, images' and other facts since the settlement of our ancestors.  Particularly the History section at www.dvhh.org/society/history  is intended to educate, are especially suited for our young generations who do high school and college reports on their heritage.

    Tina Leto, the DVHH Membership and Public Relations Committee Chair, was on hand to introduce the organization to the Donauschwaben USA and to learn more about the their Association.  Tina also took part in the website committee meeting headed by the Webmaster Dr. Thomas Thornton.  Other DVHH volunteers, Dennis Bauer, Ray Martini and Hans Kopp were also on hand to support Tina and answer questions about the DVHH. 

    All of the DVHH volunteers are people like you and me who have something to share either historic village information, such as a list of settlers for your village or pictures and stories of general interest for the Donauschwaben.  Visit www.dvhh.org and browse the pages to familiarize yourself with the information published.  Would you like to volunteer or contribute to the DVHH; or if you have any questions, go to “DVHH at a glance” and in the links select “Volunteer to Help” or “Contact Us.”

    Pictures 2007 DVHH 079; shows Nenad Stefanović as guest of the Donauschwaben-USA to promote his extraordinary book „A people on the Danube“ Tina Leto, the DVHH Membership and Public Relations Committee Chair, representing the DVHH group and Hans Kopp, the translator of the book „A people on the Danube“ and moral supporter for Tina.

Pictures 2007 DVHH 092; shows Dr. Tom Thornton (right), the webmaster of the Donauschwaben-USA website.     

Pictures 2007 DVHH 096; shows Ray Martini, Dennis Bauer and Hans Kopp in support of Tina Leto representing the DVHH group.

For An Illustrated History of the Donauschwaben

At the Donauschwaben Village Helping Hands Project Website

Go To: illustrated-ds-history