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This file consists of a biography of Annie P. Martens - (1 file) Box 235

This autobiography consists of the following:
Booklet titled " Stormy Tides: Religious Persecutions in Soviet Russia" Life Experiences by Mrs. Maria Martens - (1 file) Box 235

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1) "Adolf Reimer, ein treuer Bote Jesu Christi unter Deutschen and Russen: Lebensbild" biography of Adolf Abramowitsch Reimer by H H Goossen. 39 pages. (1 file) Box 235

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1) Reminiscences from our Lives, Memoranda by Aron A Toews, Minister of the North Abbotsford Mennonite Brethren Church, British Columbia, Canada. Translated by John B. Toews, 107 pages.
2) A Mennonite Elder's Story by Jacob Toews, Elder of Lichtennnau Mennonite Church (Molotschna). Published in Der Botschafter, Vol. 6 (1911), No. 2, pp. 2-3. Translated by John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 235

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An extensive family tree of the Peter Epp family and brief biographies of the first four generations is included in this file, of 34 pages. Three of the Epp's sons held ecclesiastical office in the Mennonite Brethren church. The Peter Epp (b.1690-) family was one of the prominent among the Prussian-Russian Mennonites. - (1 file) Box 235

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1) Memoir, "Notes from the last years of Revolution and the years immediately after the Revolution, as we experienced them in Russia" by Jacob John Bartels. Wife Katharina (nee Wiens), 1889-1961.
This memoir is 68 pages.
2) Includes a family register of the Jacob Bartels family
3) Included is a letter to John B Toews from Ross Bartels from Minneapolis, Minnesota. - (1 file) Box 235

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1) Autobiography of J.B. Toews of 8 pages given at the North American Mennonite Brethren at Mid-Century (1940-1960) symposium, 1993, in Fresno California.
2) Memorial Service bulletin, May 13, 1998, of J.B. Toews passing on May 9, 1998.Guest editorial in the Christian Leader by Jim Holm, "Who can forget J.B.?"
3) Zuegnis fuer Nettie Toews - eine selbstlose Gattin und liebende Mutter, A Tribute to Nettie, nee Unruh, Toews, 1903-1986, written by her sons.
4) A brief letter to Tante Lena (Pauls?) written by J B Toews on October 31, 1986. Memorial Service Bulletin of Helen Pauls (Toews) 1904-1996.
5) Obituary of Elizabeth Toews, 1901-death date unknown. Obituary of P.R. Toews, 1916-2005. Obituary of Paul Toews, 1940-2015.
(1 file) Box 234
6) Obituary of Elizabeth Toews, [1901] Box 235

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Life Story of Maria Penner ( Friesen) "Mary's Family's Historical Trek from Russia to Coaldale" - (1 file) Box 235

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"Over Troubled Waters Into a Safe Harbour", life story of Katerina Loewen Willms as told to Hilda Heidebrecht. 33 pages. - (1 file) Box 235

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Life's Journey of Albert (Abram) Buhr, 1917-2006. 4 pages. - (1 file) Box 235

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1) "Meine Lebenserfahrungen fuer meinen lieben Kindern"; autobiography. No birth or death date given. - (1 file) Box 234

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1) "Recollections of Jelanskaya"; autobiography of Gertrude Reimer (nee Wiebe) 1884-1988. Gertrude Reimer was the wife of Gerhard Reimer, who was a Mennonite minister. He died 1931.
2) "Recollections of Childhood and Youth"; autobiography of Lydia Thielman (nee Reimer). Writtten in 1975. - (1 file) Box 234

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1) "Those Who Sow in Tears Will Reap with Songs of Joy"; autobiography of Katharina Sawatzky, 1915-2009
English Translation. 81 pages.
2) Die Stimmlosen, German. 67 pages - (1 file) Box 234

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1) "Aeltester J A Rempel's Lebens und Leidensgeschichte"; biography of Jacob Aaron Rempel 1883-1941, written by his brother Peter.A. Rempel in 1946. 34 pages - (1 file) Box 234

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1) "What a Heritage" an autobiography of Elizabeth Schulz (nee Unruh), 1866-1943.
It recounts the trek into central Asia and emigration to America. 147 pages.
2) Correspondence from Anna Keyes (Schulz) to John B Toews, 1972
3) Maps of North America and Russia - (1 file) Box 234