Book Description

There are seven articles in issue 4, June 2023 of "Journal of Ethnic Microhistory ": 1. The theatre Project for Handicapped Children in Yerevan, Armenia. The author describes the preliminary results of the "Theatre project for children with problems in development." She gives the analyses of children's behaviour during the rehearsals and premiere of the play based on Grimm brothers' fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker". 2. "German Experts in the Development of Forestry in Russia" depicts the contribution of German specialists to the development of forestry in the Russian Empire. 3. The historian Alex Dreger analyses in his critical review the distorted facts presented in the digital "mBook Cultural History of Russia-Germans". 4. The former child prisoner of the Soviet concentration zones for Russia-Germans Margarita Unruh talks about her childhood in the Central Asian Karakum Desert. Thanks to the mutual support and compassion of the indigenous Uzbeks, three sisters without parents were able to survive the cruel times and ultimately establish themselves in life. 5. In his review, Alexej Debolski deals with the story "Our Courtyard" by Hugo Wormsbecher, who wanted to remind the reader of some events from the time of the German-Soviet War (1941-1945). Hugo Wormsbecher describes the cruel events from the perspective of a Russia-German small child. 6. Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Ileskan Smanov believes that art of painting helps a growing person to comprehend the world and contributes to the harmonious development of school children. 7. The article "Concordia Shall Be Her Name" by Walther Friesen describes the history of the "Schiller Bell", donated by the members of the "Moscow Schiller Society" to Schiller's birthplace, Marbach am Neckar.