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Alternative service

This photo is a portrait of fourteen young men who are in uniform, as part of alternative service, either in forestry or in the Red Cross.
The photo is in a postcard format.

Alternative Service - WWI

Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz, helped build roads and railway tracks during WW I in the Ukraine as Alternative Service. In this photo the buildings under construction are in the distance while forest trees and stumps of trees are visible in the foreground.

Anna Wiens and her family posing for family photo

This photo is a formal family photo taken on the occasion of the engagement of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s grandparents, Anna Wiens and Dietrich Rempel, standing. Anna’s younger brother Peter stands at the right. Anna’s parents (and Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s great-grandparents) Margareta (Dück) Wiens and Peter Wiens sit in the middle with their younger daughter, Gretchen (Margaret) seated on a low stool at the right. Peter and Margareta Wiens owned the store in Halbstadt, located across the street from the pharmacy.

Bergen and Duerksen families posing for photo

Family and friends pose outside in front of a house. To the left of the center are the parents of Elvera, Lydia and Jakob Bergen. Elvera’s oldest sister Hedwig is on her mother’s lap. On the right is the Martin Duerksen family and their 5 children: Martin Duerksen is seated to the right of Jakob Bergen, his son Gerhard stands to his right. (This boy had health problems as a result of the measles and consequently the Canadian government would not let the family come to Canada.) To the right of her son Gerhard is Mathilda Duerksen, sister to Lydia and aunt of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz. To the right of Mathilda is their son Peter and seated in front of him at the small table are their daughters Anna (called Njuta) at the right and Lydia to the left. In the middle is Martha, youngest daughter of the Duerksens (she has a white bow in her hair). David Duerksen? unmarried, stands behind his brother Martin. The family at far left are also Duerksens, Gerhard, his wife Lisa? and their daughter Annchen. Standing behind Lydia Bergen is Mariechen Duerksen with her husband.

Brodsky estate

This photo is of the Brodsky estate with the grandparents of Nicholas J. Fehderau, Peter and Marie Bahnmann, in the foreground to the right and workers from the estate behind them.
(This photo was published in John D. Rempel and Paul Tiessen, eds., "Forever Summer, Forever Sunday, Peter Gerhard Rempel's Photographs of Mennonites in Russia 1890-1917.")

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