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143 North America delegates at Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren churches are posing outdoors at the side of a building. Back row (sixteenth from left): Jacob Siemens. Fourth row (ninth from left) : David Pankratz. Third row (twentieth from left): J.A. Toews. (twenty-first from left) Isaac Tiessen. (twenty-sixth from left) B.B. Fast, (twenty-eighth from left) Dietrich Rempel. Second row (second from left): Heinz Klassen. Front row (ninth from left): Johann Harder, (tenth from left): H.H. Janzen, (eleventh from left): B.B. Janz, (twelfth from left): A.H. Unruh, (eighteenth from left) F.C. Thiessen

This file consists of the following items:
1) C.E. Krehbiel, "Notes on My Relief Trip to Russia" 130 pages 1922. Box 240
2) C. E. Krehbiel, Report on Ukrainian Mennonites, 1922, 1923. Box 240
3) Correspondence and Reports from Prieschib District Commitee, Secretary N. Blank, 4 pages; Box 240
4) Halbstadt Statistics. Box 240
5) C.E. Krehbiel Diaries 1921-1923 Details of the child feeding proram and clothing distribution in Molotschna. (2 folders). Box 240
6) H. B. Janz report to the Central Committee of AMR Box 240
7) Summary of AMR Monthly Reports 1923-1925; Letter from Johann Bueckert to AMR Director Alvin J. Miller May 1925. This material was typed from Goshen College Historical Archives by MaryAnn Quiring, Box240
8) P.C. Hiebert collection, AMR, Medical village Reports, D.R. Hoeppner, Unpaged, 10cm.
9) P.C.Hiebert Collection, AMR Correspondence 1922-1923, various, 25 cm
10) P.C. Hiebert Collection, AMR Russian Relief Reports, 1920 -1923, various. 10 cm.
11) P.C. Hiebert Collection Memoirs, "The Famous 62" and various excerts., 2 cm.
12) B.B. Janz, Philip Conries, Bericht,1922 " Studienkommission der Mennoniten S. Russlands, 4 pages; Baerg, P. Bericht, 1922, 5p.
13) Unknown author, Letter to Die Mennonitische Hilfsorganisation in Scottdale Pa. USA describing the overview of the extreme need regarding famine, housing, heating, culture, religious instruction, farming, husbandry in the colonies in 1921.

This file consists of the following items:
1) "Meine Heimkehr" by B.B. Janz translated from German by daughter Martha Dueck, nee Janz. January, under the title "Follow Their Example" 1999. 13 pages.
Kurze Biographie des Bruder B.B. Janz von H.H. Kornelsen, Coaldale Alberta, 2 pages.
Abschiedsrede von Bruder B.B. Janz; 6 pages. Box 234
2) "Benjamin B. Janz (1877-1964): A Russian Mennonite Moses" by John B. Toews, 21 pages. Box 234
3) Commemorative Service program 1945, 12 pages.
4) "Profiles of Mennonite Faith Benjamin B.Janz (1877-1964), 2 pages of text and 2 photos taken in 1925 and 1950.
5) "Mother - Maria Rogalsky Janz" 5 pages. Box 234
6) Birthday greeting, Hand printed with a song from from Glaubensstimme songbook # 625.
7) Memorial Funeral Service for B.B. Janz with photo. Garden Chapel Funeral Homes, Abbotsford, B.C. Box 234
8) Margaret Martens Janz, "As I Remember Him" written by Janz's daughter-in-law. 7 handwritten pages"B.B. Janz: Notes Made by his Brother, Jacob B Janz", Coaldale, Alberta. (family history and letters) .Taken from "Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Vol1 no.1, 50 pages; English translation
9) Janz, Jacob B "Benjamin B. Janz: Nach Aufzeichnungen seines lieblichen Bruders. Written by Janz's brother.12 pages;
Jacob B. Janz, "B.B. Janz: Notes made by his brother, Jacob B Janz", Coaldale, Alberta. (family history and letters) .Taken from "Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Vol1 no.1, 50 pages; English translation by Jacob B. Janz;
B.B. Janz correspondence taken from the A.A. Friesen Collection in North Newton Kansas.
To Dutch Mennoninte Relief Agency 1921;
To Study Commission for Foreign Emergencies, 1922;
To Study Commission Board, 1922; to B.H. Unruh, 1922;
To Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, 1922 & 1923;
To Leading Brethren of the Conferences and Organizations of the Mennonites in America, 1922 , 1923; To
Mennonite Colonization Association of North America and the Mennonite Executive Committee of Colonization, 1923;
To The Representatives of the Russian Mennonites Abroad, 1923; To The Brothers Peter H. Unruh and David Toews, 1923;
To The Representatives of the American Mennonite Churches. 1923;
To Mennonite Committees in Canada and the United States; 1924;
To The executive of the Mennonite Colonization Association.of North America 1924; 1925;
To David Toews , 1925;
To my dear ones in Tiege, 1926;
To Leadership of the Colonization Authorities in Canada, 1925
10) Tribute to the Janz family by Mary Neumann (Janz), 5 pages. - (1 file) Box 235.
11) J.J. Thiessen, Begraebnisansprache, gehalten gelegentlich der Beerdigung des heimatgegangenen Bruder's B.B. Janz in Coaldale am 20 October 1964. 4 pages

File consists of the following items:
1.1 B.B. Janz "Wir haben gesuendigt",German, 4 pages. English translation, "We have sinned" 6 pages; Peter Baerg "Der Selbstschutz in der Halbstaedter Wollost 1918-1919" (letter lists names of individuals murdered in Blumenort); "Ein Selbstschuetzler Erzaehlt", "Eine Woche in Podwod mit Pferd und Wagen",
1.2) John Wall Letter to B.B. Janz" Mennonite Participation in Colonist's Brigade", 1951
1.3) Anonymous letters to B.B. Janz, " The Selbstschutz in the Halbstadt Volost" (1918-1919)od (mit Pferd und Wagen) 1919.
1.4) J.G. Dyck letters, Leamington, Ontario, 1956.
1.5) A. P. Bergmann letter , Steinbach, 1956
1.6) J.N. Wittenberg, "Etliche Hauptmomente von dem Mordtag in Altenau I'm Oktober 1919" 2 pages, translated by John B. Toews
1.7) P. Goossen, "The Makhno Bands in Zagradovka" , 1919, 2 pages translated by John B. Toews
1.8) B.B. Janz." Abschiedsede von Bruder B.B. Janz" Tiege,1926, 6 pages.

2) Folksfreund Articles written in 1918 by Jacob Martens, A. Klassen, Peter Braun, Enns, Elder H. Unruh, Abraham Kroeker,
H. Neufeld, Translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 255