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Don Penner, Pastor of Hawkesville Mennonite Church

The Mennonite Church (General Conference) choir in Kleefeld. Peter Peters, the leader of the choir and maternal grandfather of Marg Boldt may be the man seated in the middle of the middle row (4th from the right).

The Peters Store owned by Peter Peters, maternal grandfather of Marg Boldt. Jewelry was sold here and the family was well off. The Brasol Colony was just north of the Molochna Colony.

Susie Peters (left) and Mabel Cressman, Mennonite Central Committee workers in England.

Land grant of 128 acres to Peter Reesor, 4 February 1812 -- Township of Scarborough, County of York, Home District. Broken Lot 1 & 2, 5th concession

Formal photo of Peter Reesor from painting owned by Austin Reesor. Duplicate photo included in file.

In the summer of 1943, seven of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s school mates from her grade 8 class at the school in Halbstadt, came to visit her in Ladekopp. Their names are, left to right standing: Astra Sparwirt, Irene Euteneier, Victor Bergen and Lilie Schatschneider. Left to right sitting are: Elfrieda Gossen, Frieda Schwitay, Mariechen Regehr, Lydia Geyer. Victor was the only boy in their class of 13 students. His mother was Ukrainian and his father a Mennonite.

Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, was a teacher and principal of a large kindergarten in Halbstadt. Anna’s husband Dietrich was taken away in 1941 with all the other men of the area. They were sent to Siberia where they died of hard labour and starvation. In 1941 to 1943 when the German army occupied the Ukraine, Anna continued her work as principal in the kindergarten. She was a very creative teacher and known for the plays she produced with young children, as illustrated here, where a number of the children are in costume. The children in the front row are in rabbit costumes. Another time she performed a play about the seven dwarfs with the kindergarten children (shown on another photo which Elfrieda also has). Anna also assisted the older students. Elfrieda remembers her grandmother helping her grade 8 class to perform shadow plays.

This photo is related to #12 and shows some of the kindergarten children taught by Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, during 1939 and 1940 in Halbstadt. Anna, with white hair, is standing in the back row near the middle.

The family of Johann J. (Jakob) and Susanna Riediger are in front of their home with their covered carriage and some of their horses. This photo might have been taken when one or both of the married daughters, Margaretha (Riediger) married to Alexander Fischer and Mariechen (Riediger) Hildebrand left the Ukraine with their husbands. Perhaps one of these couples is standing in front of the horse at the right. The man 2nd from left beside the team of horses could be Johann J. (Jakob) Riediger.