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Gerhard and Wilhelmine (Kuipers) Nikkel

This is a photo of Gerhard Nikkel and his second wife Wilhelmine Kuipers, and the children. Wilhelmine is the sister to Anna Caroline, Gerhard's first wife.

Previously this photo was described as the following based on the text from Gerhard Lohrenz's book "Heritage Remembered."

This is a photo of Gerhard Nikkel and his wife Anna Caroline, born Kulpers, from Holland with their children. They served as missionaries on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, where Anna died. Gerhard was a chaplain at the Razin Forestry camp. Around 1901 her married a sister to his firs wife, and they lived in Gnadenfeld, Molotschna. A son Franz was murdered in 1919. [HR 157].

A group of young women called the "Servettes"

Caption in The Canadian Mennonite, November 9, 1962 (10-44-9) reads: "Servettes is the name of a group of about 15 young women in the United Mennonite church, Waterloo, Ont., which began as a fellowship group two years ago and since then has made a rather unique contribution to the church by helping spontaneously wherever help is needed including a wide variety of activities including library work, painting, and the traditional sewing and preparation of suppers."

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Civilian prisoners in Tobolsk, Siberia

This is a photo of twenty two civilian prisoners of war on Tobolsk, Siberia. Eduard Wehrmann is in the centre of the second row from the back. Other men on the photo include Bar, Heinze, Kluge, Kottas, Richier, Dorn, Kasper, Ungar, Hellemann, Ewert, Ornowsky, Fuhrmann, Zimmering, Fleschner, Warkentin, Schaefer, Siechmund, Fuhrmann, [Schighman?], [Satachatsky?].
Middle row, far right is Johan Fuhrmann.

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