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Fonds arranged in the following series:
1) Correspondence/Personal Writing
2) Letters/General
3) Biographies and Autobiographies
4) Diaries
5) "And When They Shall Ask" Film
6) Societies - Mennonitische Fluechtlingsfuersorge, American Mennonite Relief, Mennonite Colonization Board, Emergency Relief Board, Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization
7) Manuscripts - filed by the author of the manuscript
8) Research Material
9) Mennonites in Ukraine 1900-1914
10) Karaganda Mennonite Brethren Church
11) Coaldale Church, Alberta
12) Maps Drawer 2 of Map Cabinet
13) Awards, Photographic Material, Films, Videotapes, DVDs
14) Karaganda Church
15) German War Documents
16) Photographs
17) Microforms
18) Non-resistance
19) Non-Resistance
20) Selbstschutz (Self- Defence)
21) Immigration and Emigration
22) Immigration Documents
23) Indexes of Mennonite Periodicals
24) Ephemora

Series consists of the following files:
1) Mennonite Brethren Conference reports, 1957, 1961 - (1 file) Box 260
2) Mennonite Brethren Bible College, Mennonite Bethren Biblical Seminary pamplets, Gospel Light Hour - (1 file) Box 260
3) Clippings - Articles from "Neues Leben" on Mennonite origins and "Freundschaft" on Patriotism - (1 file) Box 260
4) Clippings - Mennonite Brethren Missions booklets, 1948-1950, posters of missionaries to Congo, India and Colombia and an article "A Mennonite Hospital in India" by Virginia B. Rodamor about missionary nurse Margaret Willems. - (1 file) Box 260
5) Death of Joseph Stalin, March 5, 1953, Time Magazine clipping, 1953 from The Year in Review, 1953, pp 18 - 21. - (1 file) Box 260
6) Torgsin Stores, Torgsin Certificates were rare vouchers which citizens could use to buy goods in Russian stores. A.A. Toews sent these to his brother in Russia in the 1930's.

This file consists of the following items
1) Janz, B.B. article "Woher und Wohin: Streiflichter aus der mennonitischen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft", 1870-1960, 25 pages, German.
The history of the Past, the Present and the Future of the Mennonite people from the early 1870's to the 1960's as B.B. Janz observed and assessed the culture, church life, education, environment, immigration, in which he lived.
2) Was Andere ueber die Not der Mennoniten unter dem Bolschewismus in Russzland gesagt haben. 1917-1929, 71 pages. A detailed account of the Mennonite colonies' holdings and statistics under Soviet rule. Unknown Author (Possibly B.B. Janz) Box 260
3) Minutes of the Convention of the United Mennonite Brethren Church, Sept. 14-16, 1918 in Wassiljewka, Charkow..
4) Minutes of the Annual Convention of the United Mennonite Brethren Church in Russia, May 14-15, 1910 in Tiege, Sagradowka,. 10 pages
5) Minutes of the Annual Convention of the United Mennonite Brethren Church of Russia, May 25-27, 1912, in Molotschna. Rueckenau, 14 pages.
6) Cornies, Philip, "Concerning the Situation" from the A.A. Friesen Collection. Translated by John B. Toews, June 17, 1922, 3 pages.
(about the effect of the famine on Church, School and Home)
7) Expositional, Publication of Mennonite Brethren Bible College. Articles by H.H. Janzen , A. H. Unruh., D. Ewert,, J. H. Quiring,I W. Redekopp, Hugo Jantz.

This file consists of the following items:
1) Unruh, A.H. and Janz, B.B. "Grundzuege im Charakter der Glaubensstellung unserer Vaeter,1927, German, 15 pages
2) Froese, Peter "Die kirchliche Entwicklung in Russland, 1949, German, 17 pages.
3) Epp, D.H. "Zur Geschichte der Bundeskonferenzder ruzzlaendischen Mennonitengemeinden", 1883-1925, German, 6 pages
4) Janz, B.B. Bittgesuch (Petition) Uebersetzung aus dem Russischen, " An das All-Ukrainischen Zentrale Exekutiv Komittee des Bevollmaechtigten des Verbandes der Mennoniten des Sueden-Russlands", 1922, German, 6 pages. (Letter)
5) Protokoll der Allukrainischen Konferenz der Vertreter der Mennonitengemeinden in der U.S.S.R. in Melitopol",1926 , German, 15 pages
6) Friesen, H. " Das Mennonitische Prinzip 'Einst und Jezt'" Prizip: Grund, Grundregel, Erkenntnisgrund, Grundsatz, Beweggrung. (no date, no location given,) 4 pages
7) Toews, Aaron A., " An Inter-Mennonite Meeting in Ukraine", 1926, Kleefeld, English translation, 2 pages.
8) Protokoll der Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Bundeskonferenz 1918, in Lichtenau, 26 pages; Protokoll des Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Kongresses 1917 in Ohrloff, 57 pages;. Protokoll des Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Kongrsesses in Ohrloff, Taujrien, August 1917, 27 pages.
9) Der Botschafter, Vol II, (1906) no.41, pp 8-9 "Two Observations Regarding the Decision of the General Conference" 4 pages.
The 'Old Church and the Brethren Church' split. English translaion.
10) "The Schleitheim Confession of Faith (Brotherly Union of a Number of Children of God Concerning Seven Articles.)" 8 p, English.
Articles:1.Baptism 2. Discipline 3. Lord's Supper 4. Separation from the World 5.Church Leadership 6.Church and State 7, The Oath

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Alexanderfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
2) Alexanderkrone, established1883, 1 file, village map
3) Altenau, established 1873, 1 file, village map
4) Blumenort , established 1873, 1file, village map
5) Deutchendorf, established 1942, 1 file, village map
6) Eigental, established 1865, 1 file, no map
7) Friedensfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
8) Fuerstenfeld, established 1868, 1 file, village map
9) Gnadental, established 1877, 1 file, village map
10) Landau, established 1868-1869, 1 file, village map
11) Muensterberg, established 1872, 1 file, village map
12) Neu Halbstadt, established 1872, 1 file, village map
13) Neu Manheim, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
14) Nikolaifeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
15) Nikolaital, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
16) Orloff #6, established 1873, 1 file, village map
17) Orloff, Marienburg, Statistics, 1 file, no map
18) Reinfeld, established 1875, 1 file, village map
19) Rosenort, established 1875, 1 file, village map
20) Sandfeld #10, established 1942, 1file, village map
21) Schoenau, established 1877, 1 file, village map
22) Schoental, established 1869, 1 file, village map
23) Steinfeld, established 1879, 1 file, village map
24) Tiege, established 1872, 1 file, no map
25) Neu Schoensee, established 1871, 1 file, village map Box 251

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Nikopol City, established ____, 1 file, no map
2) Blumenfeld, established 1870, 1 file, village map
3) Friedensfeld, established 1862, 1 file, village map
4) Katharinental, established 1858, 1 file, village map
5) Steinau, established 1870, 1 file, village map Box 255

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Eigengrund, established 1866, 1 file, village map
2) Felsenbach, established 1864, 1 file, village map
3) Friesendorf, established 1924, 1 file, village map
4) Heuboden, established 1865, 1 file, village map
5) Lenintal, established 1928, 1 file, village map
6) Neu Chortitza, established 1872, 1 file, village map
7) Rotfeld, established 1926, 1 file, no map
8) Sternhof, established 1924, 1 file, village map
9) Pjatichatki Statistics. 1 file
10 Pjatichaatki Summary Reports 1921-1942 Box 256

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Inventory of reports by Odessa Region State Archives, 50 pages
2) South Russian Foreign Settler's Odessa Office, 1814-1834, 132 pages
3) South Russian Foreign Settlements' Guardian Committee, 58 pages; Geographical INDEX of German and Mennonite colonies,17pages; Nominal INDEX of names, 25 pages.
4) Settlement of Prussian Mennonites to South Russia, 1801-1804, Documents requesting assistance from the Minister of Internal Affairs
5) Organization (structure) and management (governing) of Mennonites in Russia,16 pages; correspondence with the Minister of Spiritual Affairs and Public Education,1820-1904; St. Petersburg Microfilming project (Nov. 1995) 3 pages.
6) List of Records on Subject: "Mennonites in Taurida Gubernia" 1817-1932. Office of Taurida Gonernor, 103-1917; Board or Public Schools, 1811-1920; Ownership entries in Taurida; Committee of the Soviets of Worker's, Peasant's Red Army's and deputies of Crimean ASSR 1921-1938.
7) Case Huepfer, Mennonite Sect, Part I,1863-1864, Part II 1863-1869. Department of Religious (Spiritual) Affairs and Ministry of Internal Affairs reporting on the false character of the Huepfer teaching;
8) Central State Archive of the USSR, Ministry of Divine Affairs, Ministry of State Property, Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and Public Education: Full translation by Andrey Ivanov of documents regarding Mennonite doctrines, Adult Baptism, Evangelization, Permission to publish spiritual songbooks, Mennonite Civil Service, Mennonite Prayer houses, Forestry Camps, Property tax and more. Approximately 30 pages
Report from the government inspection of the Mennonite educational institutions of Tavrichesk Region , 1912, 2 pages

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Index of Microfilmed Records of the German Foreign Ministry and the Reich's Chancellery covering the Weimar Period, 1919-1932, 95 pages.
2) Records of the Reich Ministry of Economics, 75 pages.
3) Office of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germadom; 15 pages.
4) Records of the Organization Todt, 2 pages.
5) Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part I), 15 pages.
6) Records of the Nazi Cultural and Research Institutions and Records Pertaining to Axis Relations and Interests in the Far East,
161 pages.
7 ( Records of Headquarters, German Armed Forces High Command (Part I), 222 pages.
8) Miscellaneous German Records Collection (Part II), 203 pages.
9) Records of the Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production, 109 pages.
11) Fragmentary Records of Miscellaneous Reich Ministries and Offices, 19 pages.
12) Records of Headquarters of the German Army High Command (Part I), 19 pages.
13) Records of the Reich Air Ministry, 34 pages.
14) Records of the German Field Commands, Armies (Part I), 61 pages.
15) Records of Former German and Japanese Embassies and Consulate, 1890-1945, 63 pages.
16) Records of the Deutsches Ausland-Insitut, Stuttgart Part I Records of Resettlement. 105 pages. Box 257

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Berislaw, Kherson established 1942, 1 file, no map
2) Friedenheim ,Kherson established 1927, 1 file, village map
3) Gruenfeld, Kherson established 1933, 1 file, village map
4) Hagendorf, Kherson established 1924, 1 file, no map
5) Hoffental, Kherson established 1922, 1 file, village map
6) Kalinendorf, Kherson established 1840, 1 file, village map
7) Klosterdorf, Kherson established 1804, 1 file, village map
8) Meuelhausendorf, Kherson established 1804, 1 file, village map
9) Schwedendorf, Kherson established 1781, 1 file, village map
10) Zuerichtal, Kherson, established 1924, 1 file, no map Box 255

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Boschedarowka City, established 1942,1 file., no map
2) Fischerdorf, established 1783, 1 file, village map
3) Gnadental, established 1872, 1 file, no map
4) Hindenburg, established 1884, 1file, village map
5) Hochberg, established 1890,1 file, village map
6) Hula-Pole, established 1942,1 file, village map
7) Jamburg, established 1789, 1 file,village map
8) Josefstal, established 1789, 1 file, village map
9) Katarinowka, established 1882, 1 file, village map
10) Streu Deutsche, established 1942, 1 file, no map Box 255