This is a photo of Henry Peters, teacher, instructing a class of one boy and five girls. He is standing at a table holding a book and pointer. The pupils are sitting at three desks. Behind them are a blackboard, a large map and pictures. Pupils were trained lip-readers and had to watch the teacher's lips very closely. In their work the school followed the program laid down for the seven years of public school. This work was covered by these handicapped pupils in nine years.
This is a photo of a flooded backyard in New York, a Mennonite village in southern Russia. On the left is a fence, in the centre two wagons loaded with hay, on the right a building and in the background is higher ground.
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.
