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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)

This file consists of the following:
1) Military Service Act, Mennonites are to be exempt and free by the Law of Canada from serving in military either in the time of peace or war. 29 pages. J H. Doerr, Department of Justice.
2) Correspondence with the Department of the Secretary of State, Canada showing documents relating to the advantages and immunities offered to Mennonite settlers.intending to emigrate to Canada. John Lowe was the Minister of Agriculture. David Klassen, Jacob Peters, Heinrich Wiebe and Cornelius Toews were the delegates from South Russia.11 pages.
3) Department of Agriculture document outlining Homestead Rights and Exemptions from Military Service; 1973. 1 page. Box 261

File consists of the following:
1) "He Has Qualified Us: Memories of our parents Henry and Sara Kornelsen", autobiography of Henry Kornelsen, 1890-1974 and Sara Reimer Kornelsen, 1897-2003. Translated into English by daughter Elvira Dueck in 1995.
2) Kornelsen family register beginning in 1858.
3) How Small Events and Happenings Contributed to a Large Mennonite Emigration in 1923 by H.H. Kornelsen, translated by John B. Toews. 12 pages.
-- All documents contained in one file, Box 233

This series consists of the following files:
Correspondence and reports written by Abram A. Friesen, Benjamin B Janz, F. F. Isaak, B.H. Unruh, and others regarding the question of emigration from Russia.
Also includes translated articles on Russian Mennonitism from various sources

This sub series consists of an extensive correspondence between the father, Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff, S. Russia and his daughters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews and other family members with his sons Gerhard and William Toews in Leamington, Canada .The letters date from 1927 to 1938. The subject under discussion is mainly emigration, collectivization, starvation, the Five Year Plan, taxation, survival, abductions, arrests, funerals and church life in very difficult times. Part of the family were able to emigrate to Canada but some remained in the Soviet Union.

This file consists of the following:
1) Biography of Johann Jacob Wedel, 1877-1937, born in Rudnerweide, moved to Neu Samara, then Slavgorod, then northern Siberia. He was banished to a prison camp and died in 1937. Mother Wedel trekked to Poland with her family but they were taken to a prison camp in Siberia. Robert Wall, one of the step-sons came to Canada wrote this report with the help of Jacob J Wedel of Abbotsford, B.C. 3 pages.
2) A short entry on Jakob Jakob Wedel 1873-1957 is included in this file.1page

File consists of the following items
1) "Those Who Sow in Tears Will Reap with Songs of Joy"; autobiography of Katharina Sawatzky, 1915-2009
English Translation. 81 pages.
2) Die Stimmlosen, German. 67 pages - (1 file) Box 234

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