Mennonite Archival Information Database

CA MHC PP-4-098-449
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This photo shows a group of men, women and children posing in a field of grass beside a tree and a marker that has the words "Siedlung Lockwi?? (illegible), on it.

Women and children

CA MHC PP-4-098-445
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Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo is an unidentified group of 70 women and children, mostly likely in Russia.

Hospital (?)

CA MHC PP-4-098-443
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[between 1900-1918]

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows a building with a sign attached to the 2nd floor balcony. It has a red cross symbol at the top, then the words "Mennonite Lazaret". Was this a place where Mennonite medics (Sanitaeter) took care of wounded soldiers in Russia during the First World War?

Unidentified men and place in Russia

CA MHC PP-4-098-433
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[between 1900-1918]

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows a group of men in a casual pose outside a building -- some sitting on the steps, some leaning against the fence, one sitting on the left stone post of the stairway, and others standing or sitting in the background.

People marching with a banner with a Russian inscription

CA MHC PP-4-098-432
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Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

Effects of the 1921 famine in Ukraine

CA MHC PP-4-098-425
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1921-1922

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows some dead bodies on a wagon, collected for burial. [HR 259]

Famine effects

CA MHC PP-4-098-424
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1921-1922

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows a horse-drawn wagon that has several dead bodies on it, which are being collected for burial in a common grave.

During the 1921-22 famine in Ukraine

CA MHC PP-4-098-422
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1921-1922

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows a two children looking over to the floor of their room where there are another 3 bodies (possibly dead or weak from starvation).

A common sight at railway stations during the famine

CA MHC PP-4-098-421
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1921-1922

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows four dead bodies lying beside a railway track during the famine of 1921.

Dead bodies piled up like logs in the winter

CA MHC PP-4-098-420
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1921-1922

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows a scene from the famine in Russia during the 1921-1922 winter. Dead bodies, victims of starvation, piled up like logs, to buried later due to the frozen ground. [HR 260]

Mennonite group with Count Saltikov

CA MHC PP-4-098-417
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[between 1900-1918]

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows a group of 37 people. There are 7 women sitting in the front row; the rest are men. There is a red cross on the building at the back far left of the photo. The inscription on the photograph reads: "Graf Saltikov und sein Stab. Maenner in Uniform sind Mennoniten." (Count Saltikov with his staff in uniform who are Mennonites(?).

Wiebe and Unrau from the medical corp

CA MHC PP-4-098-416
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1917

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo show two Mennonite men who served as medic during World War I in Russia. It has the inscription "S. Wiebe + Mart. Unrau -- Sanitaeter -- 1917."