RCEU German Rocket Wives

Collection Items

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  Pastor Hart and a group of boy scouts from the St. Marks Lutheran Church.

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  Ruth Heimburg with her children Ruth Marie and Klaus circa 1959.

  Ruth and her two older children traveling. Location and destination unknown; either going to or from German and Huntsville, Alabama.
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  Inside Martha Steins German cookbook.

  This image is from the inside of Martha Steins German cookbook. Martha's cookbook was well-loved, with notes in the margin, and recipe clippings from magazines or other cookbooks folded within.
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  German women of the St. Marks Lutheran church gather in traditional German dress to sing and socialize.

  The establishment of the St. Marks Lutheran church in Huntsville was fundamental in providing the German Rocket Team - primarily the women - not only for worship and faith-activities, but as a communal place to cultivate cultural continuity and social connections.
  Here, the women are gathered for an event, dressed in traditional German clothing and provided vocal entertainment.
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  St. Marks Cookbook

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  The German Rocket Wives enjoy a meal and socializing at the Ft. Bliss 1963 reunion.

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  Image of Karl and Ruth Heimburg at the Ft. Bliss reunion dinner in 1963. Karl was awarded the Hermann Oberth Award for “outstanding technical contributions to the field of astronautics.”
  

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  Recipes inside Martha Steins German cookbook.

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  German Rocket team and families gather for a meal.

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  Huntsville Times article featuring Mrs. Arnold Stein (Martha) and her mother (Maria) making German Spritz cookies. December 1957.

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  German Cookbook

  This is an image of a Deutsch cookbook belonging to Martha (Marta) Stein, Gisela Stein Rieger's mother. Marta was the wife of Arnold Stein, and a part of the second group of Germans that came over to work for the Rocket team with Von Braun.
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  Typed letter in Deutsch from Ruth Heimburg to her Father, April 1949.

  This image is of a type-written letter by Ruth Heimburg in Deutsch. Sent from Ft. Bliss, Texas to her Father in Germany. Notably, Ruth asks her Father if her younger brother Dieter has been cooking his potato goulash as that is his "specialty."

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