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CA CMBS NP112-01-1
Title
All Mennonite Conference in Moscow in 1925
Date(s)
- Jan 13-18, 1925 (Creation)
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1 photograph; b&w; 30 x 22 cm (oversize)
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This photographs shows Mennonite leaders from all over Russia who met in Moscow from Jan. 13-18, 1925. According to Gerhard Lohrenz, Heritage Remembered, p. 88, this conference has been nicknamed "the Second Martyrs' Synod" because most of the men died in prison or exile during the 1930s. The men on the photograph are identified in this source as well.
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See copy at MHA 446:1.
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Note
The names of the men are also viewable at https://chortitza.org/Pht/Konf.htm
Note
See also the same photo in the MHA collection. The names from Gerhard Lohrenz's book are given. https://archives.mhsc.ca/index.php/mennonite-conference-in-moscow