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This file consists of correspondence to John B Toews - 1967 to 1979 from the following writers:
Harvey and Anne Neufeld, Katharine Hooge, Justina D. Epp: Helen Toews; Duane Koenig; Alvin J Miller, C.A. DeFehr, H.H. Kornelsen, Richard H. Schmidt, Is.P. Braun, Emil O.Toews.
Also includes the 1977 Membership Card for John B. Toews in the Amrican Historical Society of Germans From Russia. - (1 file) Box 232

The file consists of textual material :
Emails between John B. Toews, Jerry Dick and John D. Thiesen discussing the book "Letters from Susan". - (1 file) Box 232

The file contains the following textual material:
1) Letters to John B. Toews from Olga Berg and Abram Berg who were ministering in Karaganda and relocated to Koeln Germany,
2) Two letters from John B. Toews to Olga Berg offering condolences to Olga Berg on the death of Abram Berg in 1993. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
John B. Toews received a letter from Victor Dirks who located an obituary of his grandfather Cornelius Heinrich Warkentin, 1865-1936.
A Family Group record is included in this file. - (1 file) Box 232

This subseries consists of the following:
The story of the AMR; The University and Contemporary Christianity; General Congresses of VBHH (Verband der Bürger holländischer Herkunft); Anny, Sheltered in the Arms of God; The Land Question and notes on other assorted topics

Subseries 1 contains the following 2 files:
1) Introduction:Origin of the Reports by Adam Giesinger 4 pages and List of Mennonite Settlements in Russia, 36 pages
2) Molotschna Village Questionnaires (1942), A Summary of Data in the Surviving ""Stumpp Commando" Molotschna Village Questionnaires. These statistics enumerate the Volksdeutche who were exiled,forcibly evacuated, recruited in the Red Army, Separated families and Complete families. The DorfKarte , (Village Reports) include the following:
Alexanderkrone, Alexandertal, Altonau, Blumenort, Fischau, Friedensdorf, Friedensruh, Gnadenheim, Gandental, Halbstadt, Hamberg, Hirschnau, Kleefeld, Konteniusfeld, Ladekopp, Landskrone, Lichtenau, Lebenau, Lindenau, Margenau, Mariawohl, Muensterberg, Neukirch, Orlow, Paulheim,Petershagen, Pragenau, Rosenort, Schoenau, Schoensee, Sparrau, Steinfeld, Gross-Tokmak, Tiege, Tiegenhagen, Waldheim
3) List of German Settlements with present Russian names
4) Dr. Karl Stumpp reports: Zusammenfassender Bericht Ueber die duetschen Siedlungen im ehemaligen Wolyynien, d.h. den heutigen Generalbezirken Uman, das zu Kiew zaehlt; 9 pages; Piatichatki, Dnjepropetrowsk, 11 pages; 10 Deutschen Siedlungen des Gebietes Pjatichatki Generalbezirk Dnjepropetrowsk, 11 pages; Bericht ueber Siedlungen in den Gebieten Dnjepropetrowsk;Petrikoewka und Werchnje-Dnjeprowsk,, 9 pages.
5) Correspondence, extensive official correspondence of Karl Stumpp, 20 cm of text including telegrams, reports, requests with officials, P. Busse, Gerhard Fast, in 1943. Box 254
6) Statistics material regarding the Chortiza Colony with graphs and tables compiled by K. Stumpp. 4cm

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Korosten Area, 1921-1922; 1933-1934, Census, statistics, culture, exiled, murdered, starved people; graphs.
2) Wolynien, 1920-1944, Census statistics of major cities
3) Sofiewka, 1942, Census statistics 1 file
4) Beritschew, Shitomir, report from 1942-1943, Statistics, 1 file
5) Markowetz, established 1850, 1 file; Lindowka, established 1880, 1 file, village report, no maps
6) Nikolaijewka established 1877-1878, village report. 1 file, no map
7) Neu Romaowka established 1878, 1 file, no map
8) Schepetowka, Uman, Dubno, Sofronowka, Luisendorf. 1 file; Statistics on population, mixed marriages, exiled, murdered, starved Box 256

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Inventory of reports by Odessa Region State Archives, 50 pages
2) South Russian Foreign Settler's Odessa Office, 1814-1834, 132 pages
3) South Russian Foreign Settlements' Guardian Committee, 58 pages; Geographical INDEX of German and Mennonite colonies,17pages; Nominal INDEX of names, 25 pages.
4) Settlement of Prussian Mennonites to South Russia, 1801-1804, Documents requesting assistance from the Minister of Internal Affairs
5) Organization (structure) and management (governing) of Mennonites in Russia,16 pages; correspondence with the Minister of Spiritual Affairs and Public Education,1820-1904; St. Petersburg Microfilming project (Nov. 1995) 3 pages.
6) List of Records on Subject: "Mennonites in Taurida Gubernia" 1817-1932. Office of Taurida Gonernor, 103-1917; Board or Public Schools, 1811-1920; Ownership entries in Taurida; Committee of the Soviets of Worker's, Peasant's Red Army's and deputies of Crimean ASSR 1921-1938.
7) Case Huepfer, Mennonite Sect, Part I,1863-1864, Part II 1863-1869. Department of Religious (Spiritual) Affairs and Ministry of Internal Affairs reporting on the false character of the Huepfer teaching;
8) Central State Archive of the USSR, Ministry of Divine Affairs, Ministry of State Property, Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and Public Education: Full translation by Andrey Ivanov of documents regarding Mennonite doctrines, Adult Baptism, Evangelization, Permission to publish spiritual songbooks, Mennonite Civil Service, Mennonite Prayer houses, Forestry Camps, Property tax and more. Approximately 30 pages
Report from the government inspection of the Mennonite educational institutions of Tavrichesk Region , 1912, 2 pages

This subseries consists of the following:
1) Articles and newspaper articles about the education of children in Germany during the years 1934-1937.
The material is distributed by the Duesseldorf Paedagogischer Verlag, 1935.
2) Schlag nach Ueber die Sowjet Union: Wissenswerte Tatsachen, Uebersichten, Tabellen und Karten nebst einer mehrfarbigen Uebersichtskarte der Sowjetunion. Book published by Bibliographisches Institut , Leipzig, 35 pages.
Schlag nach-Hefte1933-1940, unpaginated, 7 cm. Box 256

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Adelsheim, Chortitza Colony, established 1824, 1 file, village map
2) Blumengart,Chortitza Colony, established 1824, 1 file, village map
3) Burwalde, Chortitza Colony, established 1803, 1 file, village map
4) Chortiza village, Chortitza Colony, established1879, 1 file, no map
5) Einlage, Chortitza, Colony, established 1790, 1 file, village map
6) Franzfeld, Chortitza Colony, established, 1869, 1 file, village map
7) Hochfeld, Chortitza Colony, established 1869, 1 file, village map (1942)
8a) Kronstal, Chortitza Colony, established,1809, village map
8b) Kronsweide, Chortitza Colony, established 1789, 1 file, village map
9) Nikolaifeld, Chortitza Colony, established 1869, 1file, no map
10) Neuenburg, Chortitza Colony, established 1789, 1 file, village map
11) Neuendorf, Chortitza Colony, established 1790, 1 file, village map
12) Neuhorst, Chortitza Colony, established 1927, 1 file, village map
13) Osterwick, Chortitza Colony, established 1812, 1 file, village map
14) Rosengart, Chortitza Colony, established 1924, 1 file, village map
15) Schoeneberg, Chortitza Colony, established, 1815, 1 file, village map
16) Schoenhorst, Chortitza Colony, established 1780, 1 file, village map Box 254

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Alexanderfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
2) Alexanderkrone, established1883, 1 file, village map
3) Altenau, established 1873, 1 file, village map
4) Blumenort , established 1873, 1file, village map
5) Deutchendorf, established 1942, 1 file, village map
6) Eigental, established 1865, 1 file, no map
7) Friedensfeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
8) Fuerstenfeld, established 1868, 1 file, village map
9) Gnadental, established 1877, 1 file, village map
10) Landau, established 1868-1869, 1 file, village map
11) Muensterberg, established 1872, 1 file, village map
12) Neu Halbstadt, established 1872, 1 file, village map
13) Neu Manheim, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
14) Nikolaifeld, established 1872, 1 file, village map
15) Nikolaital, established 1862-1864, 1 file, village map
16) Orloff #6, established 1873, 1 file, village map
17) Orloff, Marienburg, Statistics, 1 file, no map
18) Reinfeld, established 1875, 1 file, village map
19) Rosenort, established 1875, 1 file, village map
20) Sandfeld #10, established 1942, 1file, village map
21) Schoenau, established 1877, 1 file, village map
22) Schoental, established 1869, 1 file, village map
23) Steinfeld, established 1879, 1 file, village map
24) Tiege, established 1872, 1 file, no map
25) Neu Schoensee, established 1871, 1 file, village map Box 251

The subseries consists of the following files:
1) Berislaw, Kherson established 1942, 1 file, no map
2) Friedenheim ,Kherson established 1927, 1 file, village map
3) Gruenfeld, Kherson established 1933, 1 file, village map
4) Hagendorf, Kherson established 1924, 1 file, no map
5) Hoffental, Kherson established 1922, 1 file, village map
6) Kalinendorf, Kherson established 1840, 1 file, village map
7) Klosterdorf, Kherson established 1804, 1 file, village map
8) Meuelhausendorf, Kherson established 1804, 1 file, village map
9) Schwedendorf, Kherson established 1781, 1 file, village map
10) Zuerichtal, Kherson, established 1924, 1 file, no map Box 255

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Nikopol City, established ____, 1 file, no map
2) Blumenfeld, established 1870, 1 file, village map
3) Friedensfeld, established 1862, 1 file, village map
4) Katharinental, established 1858, 1 file, village map
5) Steinau, established 1870, 1 file, village map Box 255

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Boschedarowka City, established 1942,1 file., no map
2) Fischerdorf, established 1783, 1 file, village map
3) Gnadental, established 1872, 1 file, no map
4) Hindenburg, established 1884, 1file, village map
5) Hochberg, established 1890,1 file, village map
6) Hula-Pole, established 1942,1 file, village map
7) Jamburg, established 1789, 1 file,village map
8) Josefstal, established 1789, 1 file, village map
9) Katarinowka, established 1882, 1 file, village map
10) Streu Deutsche, established 1942, 1 file, no map Box 255

This subseries consists of the following files:
1) Olschenka, 1942, 1 file, no map
2) Blahodatnoje, 1942 statstics, 1 file, no map
3) Dobrowelitschkowka,1942 statistics, 1 file, maps
4) Neu Danzig established 1842, 1 file, no map
5) Neu Safronowka , established 1878-1879, 1 file, no map
6) Novo Poltawka, established 1833, 1 file, no map
7) Peschtschanij-Brod, 1942, 1 file, no map
8) Wosnesska City (census), 1 file, no map Box 255