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A group of men during their time of Alternative

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 2
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  • 1916

A group of men during their time of Alternative Service. Jakob Bergen, Elvera’s father is seated, the 3rd from the left. The man seated 1st at the left may by Martin Duerksen, brother-in-law of Jakob Bergen. This is one of four pictures which he sent home to the family while working in Alternative Service during WW I. See M2004Goe # 3, 4, and 5 which are related to Alternative Service.

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A sewing class in Tiegenhagen

  • CA MAO M2004U 5
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  • 1937

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.

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A women's spa called Eupatoria in Maynaki (name

  • CA MAO M2004R 3
  • Item
  • 1921

A women's spa called Eupatoria in Maynaki (name of the local place). Women came here for mud baths to improve their health. This postcard was sent to "Gatchen" (Agatha Barkowsky, mother of Rita (Krahn) Reimer, in 1921 for her tenth birthday. The writer encourages "Gatchen" not to give up but continue to be a support to her parents in these difficult times.

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Anni Rosen? a German friend of Anni Unruh,

  • CA MAO M2004U 8
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  • 1930

Anni Rosen? a German friend of Anni Unruh, Alida’s mother, stands in front of the Medizinisches Tecknikum, the school for training nurses in Halbstadt. It was sent to Anni Unruh August 23, 1938 as a remembrance from Anni Rosen’s school days. Anni Unruh wanted to become a nurse but her parents couldn’t afford to pay for her education.

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Choir of the Schoensee Mennonite Brethren Church.

  • CA MAO M2004W 2
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  • 1925

Choir of the Schoensee Mennonite Brethren Church. In second row from the bottom, 4th from the left (sitting) is Johann Bartels, leader of the choir and lay minister. To his right, 5th from the left is Jakob Brauer, a minister. Four of Anna Wall’s siblings, a brother-in-law and two cousins are on this photo. They are identified as follows:

Greta Bartels, daughter of Johann Bartels is 3rd from left in the front row.
Tina Wall, sister to Anna is 2nd from left in the 2nd row, up from the bottom of the photo. (Tina lives in St. Catharines as well and at present is 95 years of age.)
Lena Wall, sister to Anna is 1st at the left in the 3rd row, up from the bottom of the photo.
Sara Hamm, the oldest sister of Anna is the 6th from the left, in the 3rd row, up from the bottom of the photo.
Nicolas Hamm, husband of Sara is the 5th from the left in the 4th (top) row.
Abram Wall (Jr.), brother of Anna, is 7th from the left in the 4th (top) row. Kornelius Bartels, son of Johann Bartels, the choir leader is the 8th from the left in the 4th (top) row

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Family and friends pose outside in front of a

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 1
  • Item
  • 1913

Family and friends pose outside in front of a house at Blumenort, Molotschna Colony. To the left of the center are the parents of Elvera, Lydia and Jakob Bergen. Elvera’s oldest sister Hedwig is on her mother’s lap. On the right is the Martin Duerksen family and their 5 children: Martin Duerksen is seated to the right of Jakob Bergen, his son Gerhard stands to his right. (This boy had health problems as a result of the measles and consequently the Canadian government would not let the family come to Canada.) To the right of her son Gerhard is Mathilda Duerksen, sister to Lydia and aunt of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz. To the right of Mathilda is their son Peter and seated in front of him at the small table are their daughters Anna (called Njuta) at the right and Lydia to the left. In the middle is Martha, youngest daughter of the Duerksens (she has a white bow in her hair). David Duerksen, unmarried, stands behind his brother Martin. The family at the left may be another Duerksen family with Lisa, Gerhard? and their child. Standing behind Lydia Bergen is Mariechen Duerksen with her husband.

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Family of Jakob and Maria Fehderau

  • CA MAO M2004F 1
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  • 1912

Family of Jakob and Maria Fehderau. Back row standing: Peter, Manja, Jascha; Front row sitting: Papa, Kolja, Mama, Liese, Tina.

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Formal portrait of Anna and David Penner, a wealthy couple of Lindenau

  • CA MAO M2004U 3
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  • 1890

Formal portrait of Anna and David Penner, a wealthy couple of Lindenau, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine. In 1891 they took Alida’s grandfather, Heinrich Unruh of Gnadental into their home as a foster child who could work for them. Heinrich was 11 years old at the time. His father had died two years earlier. His mother (Alida’s great-grandmother) and the three younger of Heinrich’s 10 siblings remained in Gnadental, some distance away. Heinrich probably did not see them often after coming to live with Anna and David Penner.

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Funeral of four men and one woman who were killed

  • CA MAO M2004E 2
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  • 1919

Funeral of four men and one woman who were killed by the bandits. The woman died with the men because she threw himself in front of her father. Likely they were relatives of Olga’s family.

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Heinrich Enns and Sara Enns on horseback. They

  • CA MAO M2004E 5
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  • 1912

Heinrich Enns and Sara Enns on horseback. They were siblings of Olga Enns’ father, Gerhard Enns. Heinrich was an evangelist. Perhaps this photo was taken on his travels as an evangelist.

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Heinrich Enns, brother to Olga Enns’ father

  • CA MAO M2004E 8
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Heinrich Enns, brother to Olga Enns’ father Gerhard Enns is with another man in the forest. Heinrich is probably the one standing behind the other man, to the right of the man holding the horse. This photo could be related to his Alternative Service during WW I, or, his work as an evangelist. Heinrich Enns worked as an evangelist during the chaotic times of the 1920s when preaching was forbidden. Because of this he was hunted down by the Bolsheviks, suffering severely because of this to the point of death. The Mennonites asked the Bolsheviks to finally leave him alone. He was brought to a house where he could die in peace. He died in the late 1920s when Olga’s family was already living in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

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Isaak Sawatsky and Anna Dick Gossen Sawatsky (she

  • CA MAO M2004D 1
  • Item
  • 1920

Isaak Sawatsky and Anna Dick Gossen Sawatsky (she was married 2 times), paternal step-grandfather and grandmother of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck. Elfrieda remembers him fondly as a good grandfather.

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Jakob Bergen, Elvera (Bergen) Goerz’s father,

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 7
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Jakob Bergen, Elvera (Bergen) Goerz’s father, worked as bookkeeper, buyer and sales clerk at the Blumenort General Store. The store was owned by Gerhard Klassen and managed by Jakob’s brother-in-law, Martin Duerksen. In this photo Jakob Bergen is on a business trip for the store. He stands at the front of the sleigh, holding the horses’ reins and behind him sit two of his colleagues. The sleigh stands in front of a Russian style wooden house with a woman looking out of the window. A man in uniform stands beside the sleigh and salutes. The words on the back of the photo: “Gruss aus Gostovskaya” (Greetings from Gostovskaya) indicate that Jakob Bergen sent it to his family in Blumenort.

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Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz,

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 5
  • Item
  • 1916

Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz, helped build roads and railway tracks during WW I in the Ukraine as Alternative Service. In this photo the buildings under construction are in the distance while forest trees and stumps of trees are visible in the foreground.

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Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz,

  • CA MAO M2004Goe 3
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  • 1916

Jakob Bergen, father of Elvera (Bergen) Goerz, helped build roads and railway tracks during WW I in the Ukraine as Alternative Service. In this photo there is a large building under construction at the right and others that are completed at the left with logs in the foreground.

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