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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 sub series consists of an extensive correspondence between the father, Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff, S. Russia and his daughters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews and other family members with his sons Gerhard and William Toews in Leamington, Canada .The letters date from 1927 to 1938. The subject under discussion is mainly emigration, collectivization, starvation, the Five Year Plan, taxation, survival, abductions, arrests, funerals and church life in very difficult times. Part of the family were able to emigrate to Canada but some remained in the Soviet Union.

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

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 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

Series consists of the following file:
1) A letter from prisoner Andrei Pedasenko, a Russian young man, who was detained for proclaiming his conversion to Christianity.
He thanks his Brothers in the German colonies of Khortitza for their Christian witness. A copy of the letter written in the gothic script is translated into English 9 pages. - (1 file) Box 232