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Erna (Wiens) Stern photographs

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1_301_2
  • Series
  • 1942, 2006

Copies of photographs taken by Erna Wiens' supervisor during the reconstruction of the Dneprostroi hydroelectric station in 1942, and two portraits of Erna Wiens.

Stern, Erna (WIens)

Gerhard Martens papers

This series consists of correspondence to and from the Gerhard J. (George) and Luise Martens family. Gerhard's mother-in-law, Elise Enns, and Henry and Erma Enns are frequent correspondents. Other letters include those from Germany.

Martens, Gerhard J., 1908-1982

Maps

Series consists of the following files:
1) Paraguay/Canada/USA/Mexico
2) Germany
3) Russia/Ukraine
4) Poland/Holland/Danzig maps

MCC Small Collections

  • US MCC US IX-04
  • Series
  • 1937-present

Various subjects and time periods

Mennonite Central Committee (Akron, Pennsylvania)

Prussia/Polish/Netherlands Maps

Series consists of the following maps:
1) Neue Verkerhrskarte der Provinz Westpreussen, 40x44 cm. Map of West Prussia.
2 The Danzig Area, 1914, 12x18 cm. (indicating Mennonite settlements)
3) Karte des Freistaates Danzig, 50x69 cm. (shows borders of Germany and Poland as of 1920.
4) Das deutsche Siedlungsgebiet in Polnisch-Wolhynien, 39x57 cm.German colonies in Poland.
5) Nederland (Netherlands) Tourist map, 105x80 cm, with index, legend, milage chart, trip tips in Dutch language

Miscellaneous Maps

Russia/Ukraine Maps

Series consists of the following maps:
1) Early Russia in the 13th Century, 8x23 cm.
2) Countries of origin, itineraries and areas of settlement ( 1763-1861) of the Volga and Black Sea Germans in the mother colonies, 22x32 cm.
3) General Map Soviet Union, colorprint 66x100 cm.
4) Soviet Union, 1990, 90x52cm. (National Geographic Society map)
5) Soviet Union, 1976, 90x52cm. (National Geographic Society map)
6) Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken (Soviet Republic/USSR) 69x97cm.
7) Soviet Union (in Russian language) 1976, 62x91cm.
8) Ukraine Road Map, 2001, 78x112 cm.
9) Ukraine Road Map, 1994, 90x88 cm.
10) Soviet Union in Maps: Its Origin and Development, 1954, 19x25 cm. in booklet form.
11) Southern Ukraine and Crimea, 43x27 cm. Coloured with symbols.
12) Zaporozhye District (in Russian language), 3x4 cm. (partial map)
13) Die deutschen Mennoniten-Kolonien in Russland, 55x31cm. (German Mennonite Colonies in Russia)
14) Karte der russlanddeutsche Siedlungen im Schwarzmeergebiete (1917), 41x65 cm.
15) Khortitza Colony, District Chortitza, 28x21cm. German villages and Russian settlements.
16) Kolonie Am Trakt (village plan) 16x26 cm. Hand drawn.
17) The Island of Chortiza, Dnieper River, 30x42 cm. hand drawn by William Schroeder; points of interest.
18) Chortitza Colony in 1865, 30x42, hand drawn by William Schroeder. Mennonite villages, Russian villages.
19) Mennonite Colonies in South Russia, 30x42 cm. hand drawn by William Schroeder. Mennonite colonies, Lutheran villages
20) Krivoy Rog and Vicinity, 22x27 cm, legend gives the religious orientation of the villages.
21) Molotschnaer Mennoniten-Bezirke Halbstadt und Gnadenfeld, 32x50, 1981
22) Russian Penal Colony, 24x42 cm, drawing of Concentration Camp # 36, near Krasnoyarsk.
23) Mennonite Maps and Charts: I. Origin of the Mennonites. II. The Spread of Swiss Mennonites. III. The Spread of Dutch Mennonites. IV. The Spread of Mennonites in Russia. V. Mennonite Migration:1874-84. VI. Mennonite Migration: 1923-30 VII. Mennonite Migration World War II. Mennonites in South America. 27x21 cm.( 4 leaves).
24) Karte mennonitischer Siedlungen in der Omsk Gegend, Sibirien (Mennonite settlements in the Omsk region in the first half of the 20th Century). Handdrawn map.14x40 cm.
25) Soviet Union - Political Map.13x24 cm.
26) Mennonite Settlements in European Russia. Includes historical data (in German).20x24 cm.
27) Deutsche Siedlungen Kreis Saporoshje (German Settlemets in Zaporoshje Region) 25x17 cm.
28) Deutschtumskarte des suedrussischen Schwarzmeergebietes (German Colonies in the Black Sea region). 15x23 cm.

Miscellaneous Maps

The Great Trek 1939-1945

The Great Trek is a feature length documentary film of the Mennonite experience and exodus from Russia 1939-1945. It is about World War II and the Russian Mennonites who were part of a migration of people, not only of many individuals, but of entire populations. The movement began with the resettling of ethnic Germans after the annexation of the Baltic States in 1940 by the Soviet Union. After the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and the USSR, entire ethnic German colonies were uprooted and moved east. When the Soviet armies forced the German retreat beginning in 1943, all ethnic Germans were evacuated from Ukraine by the retreating German forces. Among them were 35,000 people of Mennonite origin and background.

This films consists of two parts – the first covering 1939-1943 and the second 1943-1945. Each part begins and ends with an introduction and closing comments by Mennonite historian, educator and editor Gerhard Ens. In this documentary, Otto Klassen has assembled a collage of documentary and newsreel footage made by German information services of the time and still photographs from the archives of the Federal Republic of Germany in Coblenz, private archives and from the archives of the Mennonite Heritage Centre in Winnipeg to tell a story. The archival film footage gives the film an immediacy that narration and re-enactment cannot. The realism and horror is almost overpowering at times. Producer and director Otto Klassen has released both English and German versions of The Great Trek.

Also included with the moving images is a script, sequence summary and shot list, Correspondence related to archival footage acquired from German archives and reviews and congratulatory correspondence.