Item 63.0 - Chortitza Teacher Training School - reunion, Canada

This is a photo of the former students of the Chortitzer Zentralschule reunion held in Winnipeg on July 3, 1944, to commemorate the centenary of their school by establishing a Mennonite publishing house and book club. (see Mennonite Historian XI:4) (see also Photograph 323:214).
(left to right): Row 1: Abram Wiebe, Winnipeg; Jacob H. Wiebe, Morris MB; Johann Vogt, Steinbach MB; Gerhard W. Sawatzky, Burnaby, B.C.; Peter Lehn, Winnipeg, MB. Row 2: Heinrich Riediger, Winnipeg; Jacob Friesen, Holland, MB; W.J. Peters, Steinbach, MB; C.H. Pleneert, Winnipeg; Dietrich H. Epp, Rosthern, SK; Anna Peters (nee Heese), Winnipeg; Andreas K. Peters, Winnipeg; Bernhard J. Schellenberg, Winnipeg; Peter J. Reimer, Steinbach, MB. Row 3: Johann G. Rempel, Rosthern SK; Peter A. Rempel, Blumenort, MB; Johann P. Classen, Winnipeg; W.J. Wiens, Dundurn, SK; Johann P. Schroeder, Morris, MB; Franz F. Epp, Hanley, SK; Johann Braun, Headingley, MB; Jacob J. Banman, Prairie Rose, MB; Wilhelm Zacharias, Clavet, SK. Row 4: Peter Vogt, Steinbach, MB; David Kasdorf, High Bluff, MB; Franz J. Braun, Arnaud, MB; Wilhelm Martens, Winnipeg; Abram Vogt, Steinbach, MB; P.B. Krahn, Altona, MB; Gerhard S. Derksen, Steinbach, MB; J. H. Unger, Rush Lake, SK; D. Toews, Winnipeg; Johann J. Wieler, Winnipeg. Row 5: J.P. Neufeld, Winnipeg; G.H. Kasper, Grunthal, MB; P.A. Hamm, Aberdeen, SK; Heinrich H. Isaak, Winnipeg; P.J. Penner, Winnipeg; A. Walde, Kindersley, SK; Arnold Dyck, Steinbach, MB; David Huebert, Winnipeg; Franz H. Goerzen, Miami, MB; Heirnich D. Dyck, Horndean, MB. Row 6: Gerhard G.H. Ens, Reinland, MB; A. Martens, Glenbush, SK; A.P. Bueckert, Plum Coulee, MB; W.H. Goerzen, Blumenort, MB; P.H. Krahn, Niverville, MB. H.J. Bergen, Brunkild, MB; C.J. Warkentin, Herschel, SK; J.J. Sawatzky, Carstairs, AB.