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Mennonites Russia Album Thiessen, Peter, 1885?-1918 Item
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Thiessen family, victims of bandits

This is a photo of one woman and four men in open coffins placed outside on the ground. They were murdered in their home, near the station of Sojiewsky Sawood Ekaterinoslov Gouvern in January, 1918. (Left to right): Annie Thiessen, eighteen years old, threw herself in front of her father, Abram Thiessen, and thus saved his life; her uncle, Aron Thiessen; Heinrich Thiessen left a wife and three children; Peter Thiessen, engaged to be married and Gerhard Thiessen, engaged to be married.

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