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This file contains the following articles:
1) Abram Baerg, Reflections and Recollections on Blumenort, 1919. 11 pages
2) Die Tragoedie von Blumenort, Part 1. Lists of the murdered citizens. 19pages.
3) Harry Dyck, Blumenort; An Episode related at Harry Dyck's Golden Wedding. - (1 file) Box 255

This file consists of the following:
H.H. Kornelsen "Wie kleine Begegenheiten und Ereignisse mitwirken, dass es ano 1923 zu einer grossen Auswanderung der Mennoniten kam". German, 18 pages - (1 file) Box 241

This file consists of the following items:
1) Peter Nickel "Der Selbstschutz, 1918-1919" . 84 pages. Box 255
2) Anonymous," Die Gruendung des Verbandes in Alexanderwohl, 1920-1921, German, 8 pages, Organizational meeting in Alexanderwohl,

This file consists of the following items:
1) Die Mennoniten-Gemeinden in Russland waerend der Kriegs and Revolutionsjahre 1914 bis 1920.
It is translated and expanded from Dutch and published by Kommissions-Verlag der Mennon. Fleuchtlingsfeursorge E.B. in Heilbron 115 pages.
2) Protokoll der erweiterten Siztung des Missionskomomitees der Mennoninten-Brueder-Gemeinden in Russland am 28 Juni 1918.
1 page,
3) Protokoll des Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Kongresses in Ohrloff, Taurien vom 14-18 August 1917. - (3 files) Box 241
4) Protokoll des Allgemeinen Mennonitischen Bundeskonferenz im Bethaus zu Lichtenau, 1918. 26 pages..
5) Protokoll der Jahressitung der Vereinigten Christlichen Taufgesinnten Mennoniiten Bruedergemeinde in Russland, Mai 1912. Ruekenau, 8 pages.

• Box 241

This file consists of the following:
1) Nicholas Fehderau, Aus der Hoehe in die Tiefen: Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugendjahren in Sued Russlaand"; 866 pages. Book 1: 1904-1924 Meine Lebensgeschichte ;
Book 2: 1908-1914, Neu Halbstadt- Mein Heimort;
Book 3: 1914-1917, Der erste Weltkrieg;
Book 4: 1917,1918, Revolution und Beurgerkrieg;
Book 5 & 6: Im Schatten des Todes 1919-1920; Es geht immer tiefer hinab,1921-1922;
Book 7 & 8: Ein schwerer Kampf um's Dasein; 1922-1923;
Book 8: Im Zeichen der Auswanderung, mein letztes Jahr in der alten Heimet, 1923-1924. - (6 files) Box 241

File consists of the following items:
1) Memoir of Gerhard Toews, 1903-1984, titled "Notitzen und Erinnerungen". German. 40 pages. Box 236
2) Translation of memoir "Gerhard Toews, Notes and Reminiscences" edited and translated by John B. Toews. 31 pages. Box 236
3) Gerhard Toews - letters to his children from 1927 to 1931. Box 236
4) Family Record sheet. Box 236
5) Hand drawn map of the village of Ohrloff, Molotschna as it was in 1918. Box 236

File consists of the following items:
1) "My Life: the Russian Years, 1900-1919, autobiography of Gerhard Wiens (1900- ). Edited by James Urry and used in his research for his doctoral thesis at Oxford University. 61 pages.
2) Memories of my Trip to Russia in 1914 by Olga Wiens

• (1 file) Box 235

This file consists of the following article:
1) Anonymous, The Selbstschutz in the Halbstadt Volost (1918-1919). name withheld.; from B.B. Janz Papers. translated by John B. Toews.
2) N.H. Unruh of Morris letter "Recollections, 1969" describes his experience of serving in Halbstadt in the Selbstschutz in 1918. This evaluation of the Selbstschutz movement and of Makhno bands tells of the Selbstschtz's collapse. It is translated by John B. Toews. 4 pages. - (1 file) Box 255

File consists of the following item:
1) Heinrich Heinrich Klassen (1888-1972) autobiography. Special attention is devoted to his life in Russia from 1888-1924. He describes the establishment of the Selbstschutz (self-defense) of Mennonite colonies. - (1 file) Box 233

This file contains
1) Letters from Jacob W. Toews to Gerhard J Toews , Peter Toews, Susanna Toews, Mariechen Toews, Agnes Toews, Peter Hiebert, Anna Hiebert.
2) Translation of an unsigned 2-page essay "Collectivization and an Ohrloff, Molotschna Family Letter from 1927 to 1934".
Translator John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) Roy Rempel, "Selbstschuz: The Role of the Mennonite Militia in the Russian Civil War" 17 pages.
2) Letter to John B. Toews asking for additional information on the subject of the Selbstschutz and the Civil War and Revolution in Russia. - (1 file) Box 255

This file contains the following manuscripts:
1) Der Selbstschutz 1918-1919, Anonymous, 85 pages, written in German.
2) The Selbstschutz 1918-1919, Anonymous, translated by John B. Toews, 17 pages. - (1 file) Box 255