Mennonite Archival Information Database

Nursery out for a stroll

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-25.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of 4 baby carriages outside in a park setting. Three women are standing facing two men.

Nursery with Hedwig Nacht in charge

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-24.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of 5 women standing outside with baby carriages. The woman in the middle is Hedwig Nacht a Swiss Mennonite.

Nurses Martha Thiessen and Sijtje DeGroot

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-64.0
Item
[between 1949-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of two nurses who work at the Gronau refugee hospital in their uniforms. Martha Thiessen is looking down and Sijtje DeGroot is looking to the side.

Office manager Heinrich Hamm greeting two former POWs

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-56.0
Item
May 2, 1948

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of Heinrich Hamm (on right), office manager at one of the refugee camps in Germany run by MCC, greeting Jacob Letkemann and another former prisoners of war (POWs) on May 2, 1948.

Office staff

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-71.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of 16 men and women posing for a photo. These people are the office staff that ran the Gronau refugee camp.

Official transcript of the American Military Tribunal against Otto Ohlendorf et. al. Nurnberg, Germany

CA MHC PP-Volume 5456-2
File
1948

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This item is a transcript of the of the testimony of Franziska Reimers regarding the Einsatzkommando Mathias Graf.

Omar Lantz from Pennsylvania, camp manager

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-70.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of Omar Lantz, originally from Pennsylvania who was the refugee camp manager in Gronau, Germany. He is standing on the street with his arms folded. He is wearing a red plaid shirt.

On the way to the station.

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-95.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of three women walking in an open air train station. On the side is a steam engine and other people in the background.

Packing Bibles received from the American Bible Society

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-52.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of 3 people standing outside around a table packing Bibles from the American Bible Society to give out to people passing through the camp. Bible distribution.

Peeling potatoes

CA MHC PP-Photo col. 658-18.0
Item
[between 1946-1950]

Part of Siegfried Janzen fonds

This photo is of nine women of various ages sitting outside. They are wearing aprons and peeling a large pile of potatoes at their feet. This is for a meal at the refugee house in Gronau, Germany run by MCC.