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Johann Kroeker fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1914- 1930

This fonds consists of eight photographs primarily of the activities of Mennonite conscientious objectors in the forestry service in the Asov region of Imperial Russia around 1915 where Johann Kroeker served. The photos provide information on the activities, tools and environment in which the alternative to military service took place.

Kroeker, Johann, 1892-1956

David P Heidebrecht fonds

  • CA MHSBC 85
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1979

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Autobiography - 1893-1915 - (1 file) - Box 197
2) Correspondence - 1966-1971 - (1 file) - Box 197
3) Financial Records - 1966 - (1 file) - Box 197
4) Personal writing - 1966, "Vorwort" & "Historische Daten ueber den Ersatzdienst" by G. I. Peters, includes photocopied photos of Forestry President David J. Dyck and Forester Chliwitsky-Asow, 1889-1909. Includes 16 pages of photos, most of which are also in Series 5 below. - (1 file) - Box 197
5) Collection of personal experiences of Mennonites in military or alternate service in Russia during World War 1 (14 files in alphabetical order) - Box 197
6) Research essays by Victor Peters - 1976-1979- (1 file) - Box 197
7) Lectures and Sermons - 1940- (1 file) - Box 197
8) Publications - 1939 (Acta Nostra)- (1 file) - Box 197
9) Programs- (1 file) - Box 197
10) Collection of songs- (1 file) - Box 197

Heidebrecht, David P., 1893-1988

Albrecht family fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1905-2009 , predominant 1905-1926

This fonds contains a composite photograph consisting of 167 individual portraits of Mennonite men that served in the Imperial Russia's Forestry service at Razin, a photograph of teacher Heinrich Johan Dueck (1862-1922) with students of school(Dueck was a teacher in Kleefeld, Gnadental and Klippenstal, Molotschna), and a 1903 funeral photo of 18 year-old Heinrich Albrecht of Prangenau (South Russia) showing the coffin being transported with a horse drawn carriage. This fonds also includes background information on the Razin Forestei where members of the Warkentin and Albrecht family served plus genealogical information on the Albrecht, Peters, von Kampen, and Warkentin families. Some of the data is an update for the published family history book entitled, "John Warkentin and his Descendants 1820-1990".

Albrecht family