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John B Toews fonds Lichtenau (Molotschna, Russia)
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Benjamin B. Janz Documents and Letters

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

Die Mennoniten Gemeinden in Russland

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.

  • Box 241

Mennonitische Fluechtlingsgemeinde

Fehderau, Nicholas J, Estate Life

This file consists of the following:
1) Nicholas Fehderau, Aus der Hoehe in die Tiefen: Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendjahren in Sued Russlaand"; 866 pages. Book 1: 1904-1924 Meine Lebensgeschichte ;
Book 2: 1908-1914, Neu Halbstadt- Mein Heimort;
Book 3: 1914-1917, Der erste Weltkrieg;
Book 4: 1917,1918, Revolution und Beurgerkrieg;
Book 5 & 6: Im Schatten des Todes 1919-1920; Es geht immer tiefer hinab,1921-1922;
Book 7 & 8: Ein schwerer Kampf um's Dasein; 1922-1923;
Book 8: Im Zeichen der Auswanderung, mein letztes Jahr in der alten Heimet, 1923-1924. - (6 files) Box 241

Fehderau, Nicholas J., 1904-1989

Introduction to Russian Village Reports

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

Stumpp, Karl, 1896-1982

Leaving Lichtenau

Families with their children and others leaving Lichtenau to emigrate to another country.

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