- CA CMBS NP201-01-6
- Item
- [1990?]
This photo is of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square.
This photo is of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square.
This photo is a portrait of Erika Reimer Gurieva.
This photo is a portrait of Erika Reimer Gurieva.
Jakob Reimer prison photograph
This photo is of Jakob Reimer's prison photograph,1937.
Harold with his father, Jakob Reimer
This photo is of baby Harold being held aloft by his father, Jakob Reimer.
Mary at the American Mennonite Relief Office
This photo is of Mary at the American Mennonite Relief Office. Inscription on the front of the desk (where Mary is sitting) reads in Russian: "American Mennonite Relief."
Union of Citizens of Dutch Ancestry, executive committee
Part of Henry F. and Catherine Klassen Photograph Collection
The executive of the Verband der Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft (Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage): Peter I. Dyck, B.B. Janz, and Philipp Cornies.
Familes traveling by freight train cars out of Russia
This is a copy of a photo showing families boarding a freight train car in preparation to leave Russia in the 1920s. About four families lived in one of these small freight cars for about two weeks en route to Riga, providing their own food along the way. Photograph in Gerhard Lohrenz, HERITAGE REMEMBERED: A Pictorial Survey of Mennonites in Prussia and Russia, revised and enlarged (Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1977), 264.
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Mennonite refugee child, 1920s
A side view photo of a Mennonite refugee girl in the 1920s. She is possibly in her early teens and sits quietly holding a book. She is wearing a large, black head scarf and a long sleeved pullover.
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Erika with her father, Jakob Reimer
This photo is of Erika with her father, Jakob Reimer.
C.F. at Moscow Mennonite Centre Offices
This photo is of C.F. Klassen standing in front of the Moscow Mennonite Centre offices building.
This photo is a portrait of Mary Brieger Klassen.
This is a photo of the Franz and Katharina Janzen (nee Katharina Boldt) extended family in 1928 around the coffin of Katharina, who gave birth to 12 children. It was common practice to have a family picture taken at the funeral with the open casket of the departed loved one. The funeral banner announces: Wiedersehn! (We will see you again!). Katharina and Franz with their seven younger children were the ones Jacob Funk went looking for and found in 1921.
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This photo is of CF and Mary with their nanny, Nina Shokoyskaya (left), 1927. They are sitting on a bench outside in Russia.
This photo is a portrait of C.F., Harold and Mary in Moscow, 1927.