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File consists of the following item:
"Von Gott getragen: Schicksalsjahre einer mutigen Frau" diary of Agatha Matthies 1893-1970. Box 238

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 correspondence transposed to typed manuscript:
1) Correspondence of David Goerz and his father Heinrich Goerz, Agnetha Goerz, Johann Cornies, 15 cm pages, various pagination.
2) Handwritten notes by John B, Toews, 20 pages in English. Box 232

The file contains the following items:
1) Correspondence between Heinz von Homeyer and G. G. Dueck, October 13, 1963 to August13, 1968.
2) Letter from G.G. Dueck to John B. Toews, Aug. 31, 1968 , originating from Springstein, Manitoba. Envelope included.
3) Funeral announcement of Heinz von Homeyer, 1896-1996. - (1 file) Box 255

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

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

This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from father Jacob W. Toews
2) Letters from siblings Susanna , Mariechen, Elizabeth, Agnes and brother Peter J. Toews describing the state owned agricultural farms, collectivization, the second great famine, deportation, high taxes - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
Letters to Gerhard J Toews from his father Jacob and siblings , Elisabeth, Agnes, Peter and 2 unsigned letters.
Some of the letters are abbreviated, transcribed and translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following items:
1) Letters from Mariechen, Elisabeth, Susanna, Gerhard and their father Jacob W. Toews - Box 232
2) Letter from son, Kornelius Toews. - Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from sisters Susanna, Elisabeth, Agnes
2) Picture postcards to brother Gerhard J. Toews in Leamington, Ontario
3) Typed, fragments of letters, translated by John B. Toews
4) End notes by John B. Toews giving the death dates of father Jacob W. Toews, (1933), Mariechen Toews (1935) and the move to Melitopol of sisters Agnes, Susanna and Elisabeth

• (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) 1938 letters and cards from Susanna Toews, Agnes Toews to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontaio. 1 cm.
2) 1939 letters from Liese (Elisabeth) Toews, Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews in Melitopol to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontario 1cm.
3) 1940-1941 letters and 2 cards from sisters in Melitopol to brother Gerhard Toews. 1cm.
An explanatory comment by Gerhard is included with the original letters.

• (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from Susanna Toews, Agnes Toews, Elisabeth Toews living in Melitopol to their brother Gerhard Toews living in Leamington, Ontario in 1935.
2) Seventeen Postcards and some envelopes are included with the letters. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) 1936 letters and cards from Elisabeth Toews, Susanna Toews, Agnes Toews in Melitopol written to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontario.
Accompanying explanations are added by Gerhard Toews in 1976 in Ruthven, Onatrio.
2) 1937 letters and cards from Elisabeth, Susanna and Agnes Toews in Melitopol were written to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontario.
Brother Peter was taken away during the night on October 1937.

• (1 file) Box 232

File consists of the following:
1) Letters written by Lydia Schellenberg nee Schroeder of Sagradowka (Sagradovka) to her parents in Canada during the years 1923 to 1936.
2)The original letters were transcribed and typed by Katharine Hooge.
3) Clippings of a Schroeder family reunion held in Rosthern in 1972.
4) Handwritten notes by John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 234