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Alma Slagel Eigsti Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/493
  • Sammlung
  • 1946-1993

Alma Slagel Eigsti "adopted" a Russian Mennonite refugee named Margareta Unruh through her Sunday school class at Waldo Mennonite Church in Illinois. Unruh and her family were forced to flee Russia in 1943, first staying in Holland and later immigrating to Paraguay. Eigsti and Unruh corresponded with each other from 1946-1981. In this collection are the letters that Eigsti received from Unruh. The letters describe Unruh's domestic life and her personal needs. There is also a small amount of correspondence from Tina Boschmann.

Eigsti, Alma Slagel, 1893-1989

Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/845
  • Sammlung
  • 1900-1992

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

Neuschwander, Evangeline Matthies

Marie J. Regier Frantz Janzen Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.54
  • Sammlung
  • 1920-1990

The papers consist mostly of correspondence and articles relating to the various mission fields. Most important would be the materials on the General Conference Mennonite mission in China. Especially interesting is the material on the Japanese internment, including a large group of sketches of camp life, and items relating to the changes in China after the war.

The family history materials in the collection are also significant. They shed light on the early Bethel College (Halstead Seminary) and on Emmaus Mennonite Church near Whitewater, Kansas.

See box list for contents of unprocessed boxes.

Janzen, Marie J. Regier Frantz, 1897-1994

Robert G. Unruh Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.322
  • Sammlung
  • 1950-1980

Box 1-2: reports on agricultural experimental work in Paraguay.

Box 3: reel tapes of Fernheim Colony 50th anniversary 1980 (tapes have been copied to CD)

Unruh, Robert G., 1921-1998

Mennonite Resettlement Finance, Inc. Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/026
  • Sammlung
  • 1946-1969

Minutes, financial records, and correspondence of an organization created to aid and assist the migration, resettlement, and rehabilitation of Mennonites displaced after World War II. The organization administered funds to facilitate the migration of Russian, Dutch, and German Mennonites to Paraguay.  These records not only provide an in-depth look at the financial aspects of the miagration, but also contain migration statistics and insight to the practical problems faced by Mennonite refugees seeking to relocate. Post-1950 records document Mennonite resettlement in Uraguay and West Germany as well.

Mennonite Resettlement Finance, Inc.

David J. Krehbiel Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.275
  • Sammlung
  • 1874-1968

Most of the papers document his conscientious objector status at Camp Funston during World War I.

Also included is an 1874 Russian passport of his grandfather Daniel Krehbiel, and his own passport from a 1968 service trip to Paraguay.

Krehbiel, David J., 1896-1979

Walter Quiring Papers 1932-1950

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.139
  • Sammlung
  • 1932-1950

Part I is a manuscript entitled “Gott hört uns nicht mehr”.  This appears to be a first-person, historical novel about Mennonites in the “Gulag” in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.  Previously, this item was cataloged in the MLA's library, accession #17547, acquired in 1972.       

Part II is a manuscript entitled “Wenn Gott die Weiche stellt”.  This is another historical novel, about Mennonite refugees from the Soviet Union.  This item was also cataloged in the MLA's library collection, accession #17462, acquired in 1972.       

Part III is a collection of source documents and notes entitled “Material zur Geschichte der Mennoniten in Brasilien”.  Most of the material covers the late 1940s and early 1950s.  As one can see, not all of the material is about Brazil.  These papers were at the Mennonite Church USA Archives–Goshen until 2011; the North Newton archives had photocopies.  The arrangement of the material here corresponds as closely as possible to Quiring's own outline for it.  Folder 22 is a manuscript by Johann Sjouke Postma entitled “Fernheim, Fernes Heim?”.  Folders 26-29 are not part of Quiring's outline.  The MLA has 909 individually numbered pages in this section.       

Part IV is a rough draft entitled “Witmarsum am Krauel”.  This is a more polished draft rather than a collection of documents as in Part III.  These are arranged according to Quiring's outline.  Folder 45 is not part of Quiring's outline and just contains notes, sources, and bibliography.       

Part V is entitled “Material zur Geschichte der Auflösung der Ansiedlung Witmarsum in Santa Catarina”.  This is again a collection of source documents and notes, from the late 1940s and early 1950s.  These items are photographic copies; that is, copies on photographic paper, not xerographic copies.  The present location of the originals [1989] is unknown.  The arrangement is according to Quiring's outline, but Roman numeral XIX from his outline, “Verschiedenes,” is missing. These deteriorating pages have been scanned [2011], in folder archives/ms_139.       

Part VI is a draft entitled “Canadische Mennoniten 1875-1975".  The termination date of 1975 seems somewhat strange since the manuscript was acquired by the MLA in 1972 and was cataloged as part of the MLA's library collection, accession #17461.  The manuscript may have been modified since 1972.  This is once again a draft rather than a collection of documents.  These are original materials, not photocopies.  The message of this rather rough draft is a bitter denunciation of contemporary Canadian Mennonitism for being different from the Mennonitism of Quiring's childhood.  The contents bear only a slight resemblance to Quiring's accompanying outline and may not be in original order.       

Part VII consists of two folders of miscellaneous drafts of articles by Quiring and several of his writings that had earlier been cataloged in the MLA library holdings.

Quiring, Walter, 1893-1983

Allen Teichroew Paraguayan Mennonite Collection

  • US MCUSAA HM1/608SC
  • Sammlung
  • 1940-1946

A small set of photocopied records from the U.S. National Archives (State Department) and the Mennonite Central Committee Archives pertaining to suspected Nazi sympathies and / or political support within Germans Mennonite colonies in Paraguay.  Includes the 1940 Edwin Schoenrich report "The Mennonite Colonies in the Paraguayan Chaco."

Teichroew, Allen

Samuel McRoberts Photo Collection

  • CA MHC 713
  • Sammlung
  • 1926-1929

By 1926, portions of the Chortitzer and Sommerfeld Mennonite churches belived they could no longer trust the Canadian government after they had lost control of educating their children. Samuel McRoberts, a wealthy banker who, at the behest of his wife, helped the Mennonites by purchasing their land on the prairies and selling them land in Paraguay. These photos were likely taken by McRobert's associate, Fred Engen and were intended to show the progress and good conditions in the Menno Colony in Paraguay and thus encouraging more movement to Paraguay.

Engen, Fred, 1863-1929

Puerto Casado Siedlerlager

  • PY GKM PY-GKM
  • Sammlung
  • 1926 - 1928

Die Firma Carlos Casado S.A. betrieb eine grosse Tanninfabrik und Viehzucht am Fluss in Puerto Casado. Die Angestellten wohnten in Häusern wie sie hier auf dem Foto zu sehen sind.

Friesen, Martin W., 1912-2000

John R. Schmidt Newsletter

  • US MCUSAA HM1/309SC
  • Sammlung
  • 1963

A "newsletter" created by John R. Schmidt and his family describing their life and work as medical missionaries with the Paraguayan Leprocy Project at the Kilometer 81 Hospital.

Schmidt, John R., 1911-2003

Friedrich Kliewer Interview

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.480
  • Sammlung
  • 1951

2 reel-to-reel tapes, CD copies, cassette copy. It's likely that none of these is the original interview.
Kliewer interviewed by J. Winfield Fretz in Paraguay in 1951.
Interview transcript by Mary Rempel (done in 2013).
Digitized material at https://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_480/

Kliewer, Friedrich, 1905-1956

Wilhelm and Frieda Siemens Kaethler Letter

  • US MCUSAA HM1/152SC
  • Sammlung
  • 1956-1956

Letter from the Kaethlers written two months after their arrival in Friesland, Paraguay as medical missionaries.  The letter discusses the birth of their daughter, Wilma, the climate, their housing accommodations, and the 30 bed hospital.

Kaethler, Frieda Siemens, 1925-2011