Reconstruction (1939-1951)

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Arthur Voth Photographs and Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA HM4/387
  • Collection
  • 1947-1949

This collection consists primarily of well labeled photographic prints documenting Arthur Voth's service with the Mennonite Central Committee in post-World War II Europe.  Photos depict Arthur Voth, his coworkers, refugee camps, German and Austrian Mennonite refugees, and the resettlement process from arrival at a refugee camp to departure.

The letters provide descriptions of the Fallingbostel Refugee Camp, a detailed account of the transport of 213 Mennonite refugees from Austria to Germany in 1948, and personal reflections on the resettlement of refugees.

Voth, Arthur A., 1920-2003

Clarence Friesen Manuscript

  • US MCUSAA HM1/204SC
  • Collection
  • undated

An autobiographical manuscript describing Friesen's service as a seagoing cowboy in 1946.

Friesen, Clarence

Erna Fast Mennonite Central Committee Hamburg Scrapbook

  • US MCUSAA HM1/960
  • Collection
  • 1948-1949

The scrapbook, presented to Erna Fast by Paul Neumann, documents the work of the "Mennoniten-Speisung," or Mennonite Soup Kitchen in Hamburg from 1948-1949.   It contains photographs of relief workers and Germans, as well as personalized letters of thanks and gratitude from those who received aid.

Fast, Erna, 1912-2008

J. Alton Horst Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/150SC
  • Collection
  • 1948-1992

Fragmented correspondence and reports concerning Horst's Mennonite Central Committee service in Poland from 1948-1950.  Includes a thank you letter from the people of the town of Bullingen (Büllingen), correspondence regarding a Polish Mennonite pastor seeking assistance in the early 1950s and materials about MCC relief unit reunions.  Also present are two family photographs and several Christmas letters written in the 1960s, when J. Alton Horst pastored in Illinois.

Horst, J. Alton (John Alton)

Joe S. and Myrtle Wyse Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/795
  • Collection
  • 1943-1967

A small set of personal papers documenting the Wyses' participation in the Mennonite Central Committee refugee relief work in post World War II Germany,  Documents include photographs, correspondence, letters of thanks and artwork from refugees, MCC reports and documents pertaining to the distribution of clothing and other civilian relief work.

Wyse, Joe S., 1897-1973

Mennonite Relief and Service Committee Belgian Relief Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/19/013
  • Collection
  • 1945-1950

Correpsondence, reports, financial records, and other materials documenting the work of the Mennonite Relief Committee in Beligum after World War II.  Clothing and other material aid donations are particularly well documenting in this set of records.

Mennonite Relief and Service Committee

Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/845
  • Collection
  • 1900-1992

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

Neuschwander, Evangeline Matthies