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- 1910 (Creation)
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12.5 x 17.5 cm [b&w]
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This photo is of Helena Wiens (far right) posing for a photo with 2 friends from the Tiege Maedichen Schule or Girl's School. They are wearing their best clothing. Helena Wiens (August 18, 1894 - July 10, 1944) was born in Tiege, Molotschna. Her parents were Bernhard Wiens (1853 - 1922) and Katharina Hiebert (1853-1908). She graduated from the Maedichen Schule in Tiege, Molotschna and the Lehrer Seminar in Halbstadt and then worked as governess for the Niebuhr family in Olgafeld, Fürstenland. Later she attended the Tchongrau Bible School where she met Abraham Voth (1891-1966) from Naeman, Crimea. They were married in 1921. Their plans to go into mission work in Southeast Asia were disrupted by the chaotic political conditions in Russia. They fled to the USA by way of Batun and Constantinople in 1923.