This file consists of the following items: 1) Evacuation to Germany, 1943-1944 2) Chortitza Chronicle , Rueckblick 3) Village and Farm Life, Blumengart, Chortitza, General Description. 4) Mennonitenleben vor, hinter und nach den eisenen Vorhang - 1 file (Box 241)
Negatives also (2, one includes text); also a newsprint copy of photo with text. A refugee family from the Ukraine in the Backnang Mennonite settlement, Germany. l-r: Mrs. Warkentin, Heinz, 16, Ernst 8, Bernhard 13, Heinz.
This is a photo of a man pointing at a corrugated iron shack. There are some children sitting in the shade of a low wall by a mud house. Residents in this village have resisted being "removed" far from their homes. The corrugated shacks were set up by people forced to leave their villages and were invited by residents of this village to set up homes here rather than go to the assigned resettlement area.
Two photos (2nd one measures 17.5x12.5) show Carl Kauffman from Haven, Kansas supervising a special feeding program for the hungry patients who came to the Nha Trang Hospital where he served with MCC as as all-around handyman an medical assistant at the Nhatrang Evangelical Clinic. The refugees, men, women and children, stand around him waiting their turn to receive food. Carl died on Sept. 12, 1967, on his way to the US after a 3 year term with MCC in Hong Kong and Vietnam. See CM 15-38-1 for a photo of him at work in 1966, taken by Frank H. Epp.
This photo is of six Mennonite women making laundry in the Neuland refugee tent camp in Europe. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 74.
This photo shows Mennonite refugees on board the Empress of Scotland. All were desperately poor and sailing into a strange country, but very thankful to have been able to leave the country where terror stalked through the land. [HR 262]
This photo is of a group of Harbiner Mennonite refugees on the ship from France to Paraguay. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 64
This photo is of Harbiner Mennonite refugees meeting on a ship en route to Paraguay. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 64
This photo is of two little children sharing goodies in the Neuland refugee tent camp. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 74.
This photo is of two children next to their luggage in the Neuland refugee camp in Europe. Used in the book" Garden in the Wilderness", by Edgar Stoesz p. 73
These photographs depicting refugees in South East Asia and Africa (China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand and Sudan) were taken by professional photographers for the United Nations High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR).