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L-R Herb and Shirley Schultz with Leona and Amsey Martin at the Poole Mennonite Church, 1976 Color photo.

The Heinrich Unruh Family, parents and 8 children, their ages given in brackets. Seated (left to right): David (20); the mother, Maria (nee Schellenberg); the father, Heinrich (59); Abraham (14). Standing (left to right): Maria (11); Peter (16); Erna Neumann (wife of David); Anna (25), Alida’s mother; Helena (26); Heinrich (23); Kaethe (10). Alida’s grandfather, Heinrich Unruh, returned home to his family on Dec. 31, 1938 after enduring 6 years of hard labour in a prison camp (Gefangenschaft). The entire family had suffered serious consequences due to his imprisonment. The four oldest siblings had to work at manual labour however received only 50% of their wages because they were considered “enemies of the people”. Ten-year-old Kaethe has the distended belly of malnutrition. She was also quite ashamed of her underpants, which were her brother’s cut-off pants and are visible under the dress. This photo was published in: Harry Loewen, ed. Road to Freedom, Mennonites Escape the Land of Suffering (Kitchener (Ontario): Pandora Press, 2000), p.66.

The young Unruh family in Tiegenhagen, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine. Heinrich and Maria Unruh, grandparents of Alida, are pictured with (left to right) Helene aged 3, baby Heinrich 6 months, and two year old Anna (mother of Alida). This photo was taken when grandfather had come home on leave from the medical corps during WW I.

A sewing class in the home of the instructor in Tiegenhagen, Molotschna Colony. Alida’s mother, Anna Unruh is seated at her sewing machine on the left. The other young women in the class are: (clockwise, left to right) Alice Hiller, ?Froescher, Herta Dause, Lena Suderman, the instructor, Irma Martens, ? Kasianj. The name of the young woman seated in the front is not known.

The 18 year old Abraham Unruh, Alida’s maternal uncle, is seated with his guitar. Abraham was the brother of Anna Unruh, Alida’s mother. The photo was taken Aug. 22, 1943 and sent to Anna Unruh who was living in Leipzig, Germany at that time. Abraham changed his name to Adolf under the German occupation of the Ukraine.

The wedding of Elisabeth Stobbe and Dietrich Baerg in the 1930s at Schönau, Molotschna Colony. Dietrich’s sister Lena (Helena) Baerg stands to the left of the bride. On the far right is her sister, Agnes Baerg.
The two young women in the middle are not identified. Dietrich and Lena were Alida’s mother’s maternal cousins. The parents of Dietrich and Lena were Heinrich Baerg and Aganetha (Schellenberg) Baerg, formerly of Tiegenhagen.

A formal portrait of Heinrich and Betha Peters. The couple died in a car accident in 1962.

Conrad Grebel College's first board reunited at the Founders' Dinner in 1997. Left to right: John W. Snyder, Orland Gingerich, Hugo Harms, Douglas Millar, Milton R. Good, Henry Epp.

Sisters: Leah and Blendina Gingrich. Leah is Roy Snyder's Mother. Dated c 1900

Edwin and Leah (Gingrich) Snyder family about 1929. Back row from left: Nelson, Cleason, Roy. Front from left: Orville, Edwin, Erma, Minerva, Leah, Joseph.

Five brothers and five Sorrel horses at Oakshade Farm: From left: Roy, Nelson, Orville, Joseph, Cleason

The David B. Schneider farm where Joseph M. and Albert M. Snyder were born. The farm house was torn down to accommodate the building of the Conestoga Parkway. Used in Hannes Schneider, p. 121.

Roy's father Edwin as a young man.

Edwin Snyder with favourite horse "Pete" maybe late 1930s.