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File consists of the following items:
1.1 B.B. Janz "Wir haben gesuendigt",German, 4 pages. English translation, "We have sinned" 6 pages; Peter Baerg "Der Selbstschutz in der Halbstaedter Wollost 1918-1919" (letter lists names of individuals murdered in Blumenort); "Ein Selbstschuetzler Erzaehlt", "Eine Woche in Podwod mit Pferd und Wagen",
1.2) John Wall Letter to B.B. Janz" Mennonite Participation in Colonist's Brigade", 1951
1.3) Anonymous letters to B.B. Janz, " The Selbstschutz in the Halbstadt Volost" (1918-1919)od (mit Pferd und Wagen) 1919.
1.4) J.G. Dyck letters, Leamington, Ontario, 1956.
1.5) A. P. Bergmann letter , Steinbach, 1956
1.6) J.N. Wittenberg, "Etliche Hauptmomente von dem Mordtag in Altenau I'm Oktober 1919" 2 pages, translated by John B. Toews
1.7) P. Goossen, "The Makhno Bands in Zagradovka" , 1919, 2 pages translated by John B. Toews
1.8) B.B. Janz." Abschiedsede von Bruder B.B. Janz" Tiege,1926, 6 pages.

2) Folksfreund Articles written in 1918 by Jacob Martens, A. Klassen, Peter Braun, Enns, Elder H. Unruh, Abraham Kroeker,
H. Neufeld, Translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 255

This file consists of the following:
1) An introductory biographical essay by Paul Tiessen, 5 pages. English language
2) Letters by Gerhard Reimer and Gertrude Reimer, 18 cm. unpaged, Written in German in the Gothic scrip
3) Letter to Familie Issak From Grete und Franz Thiessen, written in1926 in Rosthern Sask, 1 page

Subseries 1 contains the following 2 files:
1) Introduction:Origin of the Reports by Adam Giesinger 4 pages and List of Mennonite Settlements in Russia, 36 pages
2) Molotschna Village Questionnaires (1942), A Summary of Data in the Surviving ""Stumpp Commando" Molotschna Village Questionnaires. These statistics enumerate the Volksdeutche who were exiled,forcibly evacuated, recruited in the Red Army, Separated families and Complete families. The DorfKarte , (Village Reports) include the following:
Alexanderkrone, Alexandertal, Altonau, Blumenort, Fischau, Friedensdorf, Friedensruh, Gnadenheim, Gandental, Halbstadt, Hamberg, Hirschnau, Kleefeld, Konteniusfeld, Ladekopp, Landskrone, Lichtenau, Lebenau, Lindenau, Margenau, Mariawohl, Muensterberg, Neukirch, Orlow, Paulheim,Petershagen, Pragenau, Rosenort, Schoenau, Schoensee, Sparrau, Steinfeld, Gross-Tokmak, Tiege, Tiegenhagen, Waldheim
3) List of German Settlements with present Russian names
4) Dr. Karl Stumpp reports: Zusammenfassender Bericht Ueber die duetschen Siedlungen im ehemaligen Wolyynien, d.h. den heutigen Generalbezirken Uman, das zu Kiew zaehlt; 9 pages; Piatichatki, Dnjepropetrowsk, 11 pages; 10 Deutschen Siedlungen des Gebietes Pjatichatki Generalbezirk Dnjepropetrowsk, 11 pages; Bericht ueber Siedlungen in den Gebieten Dnjepropetrowsk;Petrikoewka und Werchnje-Dnjeprowsk,, 9 pages.
5) Correspondence, extensive official correspondence of Karl Stumpp, 20 cm of text including telegrams, reports, requests with officials, P. Busse, Gerhard Fast, in 1943. Box 254
6) Statistics material regarding the Chortiza Colony with graphs and tables compiled by K. Stumpp. 4cm

This Fonds consists of the following series
1) History of Mennonites in Russia - (1 file) Box 364
2) Caucasus Reunion - 1945 - (1 file) Box 363
3) Chortiza-Osterwick - 1914 - (1 file) Box 363
4) Molotschna - includes Tiege, Lichtenau, Halbstadt - (1 file) Box 363
5) New Samara - 1870-1900 - (1 file) Box 363
6) Sagradovka, Orloff - 1946 - (1 file) Box 363
7) Steinfeld - (1 file) - (1 file) Box 363
8) Terek - 1918 (1 file) - (1 file) Box 363
9) Yalta - 1945 (1 file) - (1 file) Box 363
10) Yazykovo, Franzfeld - includes Adelsheim - 1942 - (1 file) Box 363
11) Photographs