- CA MHSBC 112-4-16
- File
- 1893-1970
Part of John B Toews fonds
File consists of the following item:
"Von Gott getragen: Schicksalsjahre einer mutigen Frau" diary of Agatha Matthies 1893-1970. Box 238
Matthies, Agatha (Warkentin) 1893-1970
Part of John B Toews fonds
File consists of the following item:
"Von Gott getragen: Schicksalsjahre einer mutigen Frau" diary of Agatha Matthies 1893-1970. Box 238
Matthies, Agatha (Warkentin) 1893-1970
Benjamin B. Janz Documents and Letters
Part of John B Toews fonds
The file contains the following items:
1.1) B.B. Janz Travel documents for the Canadian Pacific Railway Lines and receipts for travel taken contained in a small wallet.
B.B. Janz Identity Card issued by the Verband der Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft in der Ukraine, issued June 22, 1924.
1.2) Jacob P. Becker Poem "Aussang und Fortgang der Mennoniten Bruedergemeinde-, 5 pages,1 file (Box 241)
1.3) Sermons and Ecclesiastical Affairs - 1 file (Box 241)
1.4) John P. Isaac correspondence with B.B. Janz regarding the Harbin immigrants of 1926 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.5) Letters to B.B. Janz, Peter Baerg - 1 file (Box 241)
1.6) Letters to B.B. Janz from daughter Helen Janz Thiessen - 1963-1964 - 1 file (Box 241)
1.7) The Land Question, 1923. Soviet of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Socialist Republic correspondence with B.B. Janz , P.F. Froese, C.F. Klassen and others. Translated Russian Language Materials from the A.A. Friesen Collection, North Newton, Kansas. Handwritten notes by John B. Toews are included. 1 file (Box 241)
1.8) Russian Mennonite Documents, 1922-1924. Brief translations from Russian language into English. War Reparations, Emigration Movement, B.B. Janz Correspondence. - 1 file (Box 241)
1.9) Mennonite Emigration, 1921-1922, Russian Rules and Regulations. Minutes of the All-Russian Central Committee, 1921. Correspondence of B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.10) Mennonite Emigration, 1923-1925. Russian regulations imposed on Mennonites in the Russian language...abbreviated translations into English. Extensive correspondence with B.B. Janz - 1 file (Box 241)
1.11) Reports and Newspaper articles; 1921-1925. Hollenders by F. Mossenko with translation. Articles from "Communist" Newspaper, 1924; "Die Arbeit" 1924. - 1 file (Box 241)
Janz, Benjamin B., 1877-1964
Part of John B Toews fonds
This sub series consists of letters from David Goertz to his family.
1) Photocopied letters are faint and hard to read. They are in the Gothic script. 1863 - Box 232
Goerz, David 1849-1914
Die Mennoniten Gemeinden in Russland
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of the following items:
1) Die Mennoniten-Gemeinden in Russland waerend der Kriegs and Revolutionsjahre 1914 bis 1920.
It is translated and expanded from Dutch and published by Kommissions-Verlag der Mennon. Fleuchtlingsfeursorge E.B. in Heilbron 115 pages.
2) Protokoll der erweiterten Siztung des Missionskomomitees der Mennoninten-Brueder-Gemeinden in Russland am 28 Juni 1918.
1 page,
3) Protokoll des Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Kongresses in Ohrloff, Taurien vom 14-18 August 1917. - (3 files) Box 241
4) Protokoll des Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Bundeskonferenz im Bethaus zu Lichtenau, 1918. 26 pages..
5) Protokoll der Jahressitung der Vereinigten Christlichen Taufgesinnten Mennoniiten Bruedergemeinde in Russland, Mai 1912. Ruekenau, 8 pages.
Mennonitische Fluechtlingsgemeinde
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of the following items:
1) David Wiebe, "Forsteidienst 1920-1922, bei den Soviets", document 12 pages, translated and transcribed document by David Wiebe, "Forestry Service under the Soviets, 1920-1922" 13 pages. Box 258
David Wiebe
Part of John B Toews fonds
File consists of the following items:
1) Memoir of Gerhard Toews, 1903-1984, titled "Notitzen und Erinnerungen". German. 40 pages. Box 236
2) Translation of memoir "Gerhard Toews, Notes and Reminiscences" edited and translated by John B. Toews. 31 pages. Box 236
3) Gerhard Toews - letters to his children from 1927 to 1931. Box 236
4) Family Record sheet. Box 236
5) Hand drawn map of the village of Ohrloff, Molotschna as it was in 1918. Box 236
Toews, Gerhard J., 1903-1984
Part of John B Toews fonds
This series contains the following:
1) Correspondence and documents, February to December 1921
2) Correspondence and documents, January to March 1922
3) Correspondence and documents, April to May 1922
4) Correspondence and documents, June to July 1922
5) Correspondence and documents, August to September, 1922
6) Correspondence and documents, October, November, December, 1922
7) Correspondence and documents, January, February, 1923
8) Correspondence and documents, March, April, May, 1923
9) Correspondence and documents, June, July, August, 1923
10) Correspondence and documents, September to December, 1923
11) Correspondence and documents, January, February, 1924
12) Correspondence and documents, March, April, May, 1924
13) Correspondence and documents, June, July, August, 1924
14) Correspondence and documents, September, October, 1924
15) Correspondence and documents, November, December, 1924
16) Correspondence and documents, January to May, 1925
17) Correspondence and documents, June to December, 1925 - (17 files) Box 257
Unknown
Part of John B Toews fonds
This sub series consists of an extensive correspondence between the father, Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff, S. Russia and his daughters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews and other family members with his sons Gerhard and William Toews in Leamington, Canada .The letters date from 1927 to 1938. The subject under discussion is mainly emigration, collectivization, starvation, the Five Year Plan, taxation, survival, abductions, arrests, funerals and church life in very difficult times. Part of the family were able to emigrate to Canada but some remained in the Soviet Union.
Toews, Jacob Wilhelm, 1847-1933
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of Correspondence between
1) Jacob W,. Toews and his son Gerhard .J Toews in Canada
2) Susanna Toews, daughter in Ohrloff
3) Agnes Toews, daughter in Orloff
4) Kornlelius Toews, Waldheim, Brother
5) Peter J Toews, Ohrloff, son
Toews, Jacob Wilhelm, 1847-1933
Part of John B Toews fonds
1) In 1928 Gerhard J Toews received letters from his father Jacob W. Toews, and siblings Ages Toews, Peter J, Toews ,
2) Letters from Kornelius Toews and Peter P. Hiebert, nephew.
3) The news from Ohrloff describes the impact of the First Five Year Plan, house searches, poor harvest are noted.
Toews, Gerhard, 1911-1971
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file contains
1) Letters from Jacob W. Toews to Gerhard J Toews , Peter Toews, Susanna Toews, Mariechen Toews, Agnes Toews, Peter Hiebert, Anna Hiebert.
2) Translation of an unsigned 2-page essay "Collectivization and an Ohrloff, Molotschna Family Letter from 1927 to 1934".
Translator John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 232
Toews, Jacob Wilhelm, 1847-1933
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from father Jacob W. Toews
2) Letters from siblings Susanna , Mariechen, Elizabeth, Agnes and brother Peter J. Toews describing the state owned agricultural farms, collectivization, the second great famine, deportation, high taxes - (1 file) Box 232
Toews, Jacob Wilhelm, 1847-1933
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of the following:
Letters to Gerhard J Toews from his father Jacob and siblings , Elisabeth, Agnes, Peter and 2 unsigned letters.
Some of the letters are abbreviated, transcribed and translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 232
Toews, Jacob Wilhelm, 1847-1933
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of the following items:
1) Letters from Mariechen, Elisabeth, Susanna, Gerhard and their father Jacob W. Toews - Box 232
2) Letter from son, Kornelius Toews. - Box 232
Toews, Susanna, 1892-1943
Part of John B Toews fonds
This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from sisters Susanna, Elisabeth, Agnes
2) Picture postcards to brother Gerhard J. Toews in Leamington, Ontario
3) Typed, fragments of letters, translated by John B. Toews
4) End notes by John B. Toews giving the death dates of father Jacob W. Toews, (1933), Mariechen Toews (1935) and the move to Melitopol of sisters Agnes, Susanna and Elisabeth
Toews, Susanna, 1892-1943