Journal of Ethnic Microhistory

There are seven articles in issue 2, March 2022 of 'Journal of Ethnic Microhistory'. Johann Friesen describes his experiences in the first days of the Soviet-German War 1941-1945. He was twice wounded, but in July 1942 he was sent in a cattle wagon to a Siberian labour camp because of his German nationality. The publication of Hugo Wormsbecher is devoted to the state of education and culture of Russia-Germans after dismantling their autonomy in 1941 and their first legal steps for the resurrection of it. Andrei Triller deals with the problems of admission to Germany of Late Ethnic German Repatriates. Antonina Schneider-Stremjakowa tackles the problem of national affiliation of Russia-German writers. The essay 'Strategic Factor in the Modernization of Methodological Work in Schools of Kazakhstan', written by Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Ileskan Smanuly Smanov, Acting Associate Professor Gulmira Abdurasulovna Bachramova, and Acting Associate Professor Gaziza Ileskan Smanova emphasizes the importance of the implementation of the Concept of the 12-Year-School-Education in the Light of the Introduction of the Idea of the national idea MANGILIK EL. The paper 'A Lot of Attention is that a Failure of the Parents' attributed to the anonymised author highlights the uneasy relations of parents with the German Youth Welfare Office. In the last article Professor Ileskan Smanuly Smanov investigates the influence of painting as the most impressive branch of visual arts on educational process of children.