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This series consists of the following files:
1) Janz, Benajmin B. Letters, Emigration
2) Hildebrand, Jacob J. - Bolschevism
3) Peters, David - Village Life
4) Germanism Among M.B. Immigrants in Canada, 1930-1960
5) Andres, Heinrich
6) Sudermann, David P. From Riches to Rags: Gutsbesitzer in South Russia, 1830-1920
7) Fehderau, Nicholas J. Aus der Hoehe in die Tiefen Box 248
8) Kornelsen, H.H., Auswanderung der Mennoniten 1923
9) Fluechtlingsfuersorge Committee: Die Mennoniten Gemeinde in Russland 1914-1920
10) Nottarp, Marienbuger Werder
11) Mannhart, H.G . Jahrbuch
12) Katechismus
13) Moeller, Paul, Mennonites in Prussia
14) Namens Verzeigniss- Danzig
15) OPEN
16) Penner,Horst, Niederlaender
17) Ana-Baptists, Baptists, Mennonites, 1530-1980
18) Anonymous, Then and Now, John B. Toews, translator
19) Postma, Johann Sjouke, Fernheim
20) Peters, Gerhard I., He leadeth me in the Right Path
21) Melle, F.H. Otto, 50 Jahre Blankenburger Konferenz

• (21 files) Box 241

This series consists of textual material: including
Letters to John B Toews from 1964-1995;
An autobiography of John B. Toews; handwritten notes by the author;
Documentary portraits of B.B. Janz and Abraham A..A. Friesen. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
John B. Toews received a letter from Victor Dirks who located an obituary of his grandfather Cornelius Heinrich Warkentin, 1865-1936.
A Family Group record is included in this file. - (1 file) Box 232

This files consists of the following;
1) B.B. Janz, "Die Wehrlosigkeit der Mennoniten in Russland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg", 1919, German, report on the Mennonitischen Sanitaet-Dienst in WW I (medics). 8 pages.
2) Jacob H. Block, "Mennoniten im Sanitaets-Dienst waerends des Ersten Weltkrieges, 4 pages
3) Dienst der Mennoniten Russlands im ersten Weltkrieg.. An unsigned response to a questionaire sent to John B. Toews. 1 page Box 258
4) C. H. Tiessen, "Zur Frage: Sanitaetsdienst 1914-1918", 9 pages
5) Fast, Henrich, " Experiences of Henry Fast Sr. in Russia 1914 to 1923" . Osterwick, Altcolonie, 30 pages, English.
AND "Memories of Henry Fast" ( Re: Immigration from Russia), 1922, 1923, 9 pages, English. Also references Immigration to Canada in 1923.

This subseries consists of the following:
The story of the AMR; The University and Contemporary Christianity; General Congresses of VBHH (Verband der Bürger holländischer Herkunft); Anny, Sheltered in the Arms of God; The Land Question and notes on other assorted topics

File consists of the following items:
1) Memoir of Gerhard Toews, 1903-1984, titled "Notitzen und Erinnerungen". German. 40 pages. Box 236
2) Translation of memoir "Gerhard Toews, Notes and Reminiscences" edited and translated by John B. Toews. 31 pages. Box 236
3) Gerhard Toews - letters to his children from 1927 to 1931. Box 236
4) Family Record sheet. Box 236
5) Hand drawn map of the village of Ohrloff, Molotschna as it was in 1918. Box 236

This file consists of the following article:
1) Anonymous, The Selbstschutz in the Halbstadt Volost (1918-1919). name withheld.; from B.B. Janz Papers. translated by John B. Toews.
2) N.H. Unruh of Morris letter "Recollections, 1969" describes his experience of serving in Halbstadt in the Selbstschutz in 1918. This evaluation of the Selbstschutz movement and of Makhno bands tells of the Selbstschtz's collapse. It is translated by John B. Toews. 4 pages. - (1 file) Box 255

This series consists of the following topics or places indexed:
1) Alternative Service, 6 pages - (1 file) Box 260
2) School teachers 13 pages; and Migration, 10 pages - (1 file) Box 260
3) Asiatic Russia, 4 pages; Crimea, 1 page; Caucasus, 1 page, Siberia, 8 pages. - (1 file) Box 260
4) Colonies of Chortitza, 30 pages; Molotschna, 18 pages; Gruenfeld & Baratov, 3 pages; Jazykovo,& Nikolaipol, 2 pages; Memrick & New York & Bachmut, 3 pages; Orenburg, 6 pages; Sagradowka 2 pages; - (1 file) Box 260
5) Letters from Russia, mainly from Der Bote, 4 cm of indexes and Bibel und Pflug, Vorwaerts, and Mennonitische Rundschau - (1 file) Box 260
6) General Articles from Der Bote,17 pages; Zionsbote, 4 pages; Vorwaerts, 6 pages; Unser Blatt, 9 pages. - (1 file) Box 260

This file consists of the following items:
Translated articles on the subject of Self Defense during the Revolution in 1918, written by A. Klassen, Jacob Martens, H. Neufeld, Peter Braun, Elder H. Unruh, Abraham Kroeker, H. Neufeld. Some anonymous articles are included. The work of Mennonite Medics is described. - (1 file) Box 255

File consists of the following:
1) B. Schellenberg, "Chortitza, August 1919" from Christlicher Familien Kalender (1920), translated by John B. Toews, 9 handwritten pages
2) D. Neufeld, "Letter of a War Prisoner, Petrograd, July 1917" from Molotschnaer Flugblatt, August 12, 1917, 4. Translated by John B. Toews,, 2 pages - (1 file) Box 255

This file consists of: 2 folders Reports and minutes of the Verband der Buerger Hollaendischer Herkunft in der Ukraine, VBHH; ( Union of Citizens of Dutch Heritage in Ukraine) 1922-1927; .Janz, B.B. "Die Gruendung des Verbandes in Alexanderwohl" German, 8 pages. Box 241

• Neufeld, Jacob, Memories of the Former Activities of the the Verband by a Participant in the Union of the Citizens of Dutch Origin in the Ukraine. 65, page. Translation by John B. Toews. 29 pages

4) Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage: A Matter of Life and Death; Study Commission, Statistics 1923-1928.Box 241
5) Correspondence from B.B Janz to A. A. Friesen and B.H. Unruh in 1922.
6) Letter to the Mennonite Colonization Association of North America Ltd. from B.B. Janz of VBHH regarding details about immigration lists and contracts with the CPR, 1923, 11 pages. German Box 241
6) Jacob Neufeld, "Memories of the Former Activities of the Union by A Participant in the Union of Citizens of Dutch Lineage in Ukraine". 65 pages; translated by Lena Unger, in partial fulfillment of the course Mennonite History, Life and Principles, 1953.
A second translation of this paper by John B. Toews, is included in this file. 31 pages.Box 241

The file consists of textual material :
Emails between John B. Toews, Jerry Dick and John D. Thiesen discussing the book "Letters from Susan". - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of Correspondence between
1) Jacob W,. Toews and his son Gerhard .J Toews in Canada
2) Susanna Toews, daughter in Ohrloff
3) Agnes Toews, daughter in Orloff
4) Kornlelius Toews, Waldheim, Brother
5) Peter J Toews, Ohrloff, son

• (1 file) Box 232

1) In 1928 Gerhard J Toews received letters from his father Jacob W. Toews, and siblings Ages Toews, Peter J, Toews ,
2) Letters from Kornelius Toews and Peter P. Hiebert, nephew.
3) The news from Ohrloff describes the impact of the First Five Year Plan, house searches, poor harvest are noted.

• (1 file) Box 232

This file contains
1) Letters from Jacob W. Toews to Gerhard J Toews , Peter Toews, Susanna Toews, Mariechen Toews, Agnes Toews, Peter Hiebert, Anna Hiebert.
2) Translation of an unsigned 2-page essay "Collectivization and an Ohrloff, Molotschna Family Letter from 1927 to 1934".
Translator John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 232