This is a photo of a group of about 50 people in winter garb lined up alongside a building which housed the kitchen for the American Mennonite Relief. Some Relief workers are standing at the entrance doors.

This is a photo of a large group of people, many of them children, some with pails, in front of a building in Halbstadt, Molotschna. They are dressed in winter clothing and there is snow on the ground. A big man, holding a briefcase, is watching over them. Another photograph of this scene, slightly different, appears in David Hofer's book, Die Hungersnot in Russland, p. 27.

This is a photo of several tractors in action on a large open field in the Halbstadt, Molotschna, area in Russia, with a number of workers and onlookers roaming about. The tractors were provided by the American Mennonite Relief.

Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, poses, a book on her lap, surrounded by palm-leaf and myrtle plants. An exact date for this picture is not available. We do know that Anna was married at 18 years of age in 1901.

Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, was a teacher and principal of a large kindergarten in Halbstadt. Anna’s husband Dietrich was taken away in 1941 with all the other men of the area. They were sent to Siberia where they died of hard labour and starvation. In 1941 to 1943 when the German army occupied the Ukraine, Anna continued her work as principal in the kindergarten. She was a very creative teacher and known for the plays she produced with young children, as illustrated here, where a number of the children are in costume. The children in the front row are in rabbit costumes. Another time she performed a play about the seven dwarfs with the kindergarten children (shown on another photo which Elfrieda also has). Anna also assisted the older students. Elfrieda remembers her grandmother helping her grade 8 class to perform shadow plays.

This is a photo of Benjamin Unruh, Halbstadt [HR 183].

This photo is of the Board and faculty of the School of Commerce, Halbstadt, Russia. The front row consists of some of the industrialists and large estate owners of the area. The back row are some of the intellectual leaders of the area. From left to right, front row: Heinrich Schroeder, Bernhard Neufeld, David Dick, Jacob Suderman, Alexander Ziegler (director of the school), Johann H. Willms, Jacob Neufeld, Jacob J. Willims, Heinrich Franz. Faculty, back row: Hermann F. Dyck (mathematics and astronomy), Peter P. Letkemann (commerce), Alexander J. Kulisenin (geometry and math), Abraham A. Friesen (physics and chemistry), M.A. Kritzky (languages and history), Priest Sikirinsky, B.H. Unruh (German and Bible), S.S. Astrow (History), W.M. Markow.

This is a photo of the board and the teachers of the Commerce School. [HR 188]

This photo is of young people socializing (playing a game) in the foreground, The church cemetery is in the background. Nicholas J. Fehderau's father, nephew, sister Tina's son Jakob (Jaschinka), and his aunt, Sara, were buried there.

This postcard shows the Centralschule in Halbstadt.