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This photo is of Isaak Sawatsky and Anna Dick Gossen Sawatsky (she was married 2 times), paternal step-grandfather and grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck. Elfrieda remembers him fondly as a good grandfather.

This photo is of three young women pose standing, outdoors. Left to right they are: Katja Rempel, Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, Agatha (Rempel) Regehr. Katja and Agatha were step-sisters.

This photo is of Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck, poses, a book on her lap, surrounded by palm-leaf and myrtle plants. An exact date for this picture is not available. We do know that Anna was married at 18 years of age in 1901.

This photo is of three young women pose sitting on a bench outdoors. Left to right they are:
Agatha (Rempel) Regehr, Mariechen (Hamm) Kliewer, Anna (Wiens) Rempel, grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck.

The words written on the back of Goerz-7: “Gruss aus” meaning “Greetings from” and the place name written in Russian. Gostovskaya is the way it might be written in English. Jakob Bergen sent this photo to his family in Blumenort, presumably while on a business trip for the store where he worked in Blumenort.

A sister and three step-sisters of Heinrich and Dietrich Gossen, fathers of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck and Henry Gossen. They are, left to right, Tina Gossen, Lena Sawatsky and Mariechen Sawatsky.

The village elementary school (Dorfschule) in Gnadenheim. The teacher lived in the school building, shown here on the right, having two windows. The rest of the building was one big classroom where children in grades one to four were taught.

Postcard sent to Fischau, Molochna in 1904 to the family of
Peter Barkowksy, uncle of Rita's mother, Agatha Barkowsky. This and the following postcards were in the possession of Agatha Barkowsky. When they were forced off their property in Fuerstenau, Agatha and her family, the
Barkowskys' moved to Halbstadt to live with Agatha's maternal grandparents, the Letkemann's.

The family of Johann J. (Jakob) and Susanna Riediger are in front of their home with their covered carriage and some of their horses. This photo might have been taken when one or both of the married daughters, Margaretha (Riediger) married to Alexander Fischer and Mariechen (Riediger) Hildebrand left the Ukraine with their husbands. Perhaps one of these couples is standing in front of the horse at the right. The man 2nd from left beside the team of horses could be Johann J. (Jakob) Riediger. This photo is a copy of the original photo in Riediger-2.

Anni Rosen? a German friend of Anni Unruh, Alida’s mother, stands in front of the Medizinisches-Tecknikum, the school for training nurses in Halbstadt. It was sent to Anni Unruh August 23, 1938 as a remembrance from Anni Rosen’s school days. Anni Unruh wanted to become a nurse but her parents couldn’t afford to pay for her education.

This photo is of The Mennonite Church (General Conference) choir in Kleefeld. Peter Peters, the leader of the choir and maternal grandfather of Marg Boldt may be the man seated in the middle of the middle row (4th from the right).

Reverse side of postcard sent to Fischau, Molochna in 1904.

The young Unruh family. Heinrich and Maria Unruh, grandparents of Alida, are pictured with (left to right) Helene aged 3, baby Heinrich 6 months, and two year old Anna (mother of Alida). This photo was taken when grandfather had come home on leave from the medical corps during WW I.

A sewing class in the home of the instructor. Alida’s mother, Anna Unruh is seated at her sewing machine on the left. The other young women in the class are: (clockwise, left to right) Alice Hiller, Froescher, Herta Dause, Lena Suderman, the instructor, Irma Martens, Kasianj. The name of the young woman seated in the front is not known.