School Picture Taken In Brunnental, Samara, Volga, Russia 1935/1936?
By Arlene (Lebsack) Rolfs - Geneseo, KS
A woman by the married name of SCHWARZKOPF gave the original listing of names, but Maria Maus, Bertha Wacker and Tante Klara all agreed that the names were correct!
Back Row: (left to right)-- Alexander WEBER, Maria STEINMETZ (we called her TaTa), Jakob MEHLINGER (we called him "das schwärchen"), Emil WEBER, David MEHLINGER, Arnold
MÜLLER, Wilhelm SCHAUERMANN, Thatja MEHLINGER.
2nd Row: Unknown girl, Heinrich WALTER, Theresa MÜLLER (she died young), __?__STAHL, Walja TSCHEPOTJEBA, Karl HARTUNG (we called him "Austrian"), Robert SCHÜLZ,
Marta BORGENS, Alex SCHWARZKOPF (my husband), Frieda BRAUN (she lived with Frieda MAIER beside the Post Office and was an "exile").
3rd Row: Maria SEIBEL, __?__ELSESSER (she was half Russian), Teacher FRITZ, Teacher GROHT, Teacher WEIBERT, Teacher BORGENS (Martha's brother), Teacher GRÜNWALD,
Bertha WACKER (Lenchen's sister), Elvira WEBER.
Front Row: Amalia WACKER (daughter of Karl Wacker), Martha SCHAUERMANN (sitting up, who married Alexander Göttmann), and Helena
(Lenchen) WACKER.