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This is a photo of Abram and Sara Koop. Abram was the son of the factory owner, Koop in Chortitza. [HR 158] (N:340)

Portrait of Aelt Isaak Dyck b. 1847. He is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and black bow tie.

Aelt. Isaak Dyck family in a garden setting. Isaak and Margaretha Dyck are seated on either side of a small table with a lace tablecloth. Both are wearing black. Back row (l-r): Heinrich Dyck, Helena Dyck, Gerhard Dyck, Peter Dyck and Franz Epp ( m. to Agatha Dyck) Peter Klassen, (m. to Greta Dyck), Greta Dyck Klassen. Front row (l-r): Anna Dyck, Maria (Heinrichs) Dyck ( m. to Gerhard Dyck), Mother Margaretha (Hamm) Dyck, Agatha (Dyck) Epp (married to Franz Epp), Maria Dyck and Aeltester Isaak Dyck.

This is a photo of a group of about 25 warmly dressed women and children in front of the verandah of the American Mennonite Relief kitchen in Russia, possibly Chortitza.

This is a photo of the interior of the tractor repair shop in Chortitza, Russia. Two men are operating the repair machines.

This photo is a portrait of Nicholas J. Kroeker (1905-), also known as N.J. Kroeker, standing behind his mother Anna Kroeker (nee Anna Schellenberg) (1876-). This photo was taken shortly before they immigrated to Canada. Anna died in Lost River, Saskatchewan and Nichlas (Klaas Kroeker) died in Vancover, BC in 1983.

This photo is a wedding photo of Anna Kroeker (nee Anna Schellenberg) Kroeker and Jacob K. Kroeker in Chortitza, Chortitza Colony Russia.

This is a photo of the home of the Aron Janzen family in Chortitza. This photo was taken just before the family fled to the West. [HR 94]

Baptism at the Chortitza Mennonite church in 1942.

This is a photo of the Bethania Hospital for the mentally ill, located near the Dnieper River in the Chortitza Colony between the settlements of Einlage and Kronsweide.

This is a photo of the men's section of the Bethania Mental Hospital in the Chortitza settlement in South Russia. This section was called "Salem".

This is a photo of Bethania Staff of 1925. Seated in 2nd row from the front are (left to right): two unknown female nurses, Sara Koop, Dr. I. Thiessen (physician in charge), Dr. A. Martins (she later lived in Hamilton, Ontario) , Maria Andres (house mother), Jakob Wiebe (house father), and another four unknown female nurses. [HR 131]

This is a photo of a long group of men, women and children between two freight trains. The date is July 2, 1923. Some have already boarded the train on the right.

This slide is of the skyline of Chortitza. Houses, factories and other buildings can be seen. A large smokestack or chimney is prominent in the photo. According to N.J. Kroeker book "First Mennonite villages in Russia," p. 96 this is the Lepp and Wallmann factory.