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This is a photo of Abram and Sara Koop. Abram was the son of the factory owner, Koop in Chortitza. [HR 158] (N:340)

This is a photo of the home of the Aron Janzen family in Chortitza. This photo was taken just before the family fled to the West. [HR 94]

This is a photo of Bethania Staff of 1925. Seated in 2nd row from the front are (left to right): two unknown female nurses, Sara Koop, Dr. I. Thiessen (physician in charge), Dr. A. Martins (she later lived in Hamilton, Ontario) , Maria Andres (house mother), Jakob Wiebe (house father), and another four unknown female nurses. [HR 131]

This photo shows the Chortitza Maedchenschule.

This is a photo of the teacher training institute in Chortitza. We had two of them. Towards the end they were offering a three year course. Thorough work was being done. The building was still serving the same purpose in the early 1970s. [HR 188]

This is a photo of the high school for girls in Chortitza, South Russia. [HR 187[ (N:356)

-Chortitza [HR 133. N:345]

This is a photo of the factories of Lepp and Wallman. (HR 53). N:336

This is a postcard of Chortitza village provides an overview of the village, as well as a view of the Mennonite Church, the telephone and post office, and the great oak tree (HR 53). N:335. (2 prints).

This is a photo of Isaak Dyck, elder of the Chortitza Mennonite congregation from 1896. [HR 138]

This is a photo of Julius von Kampen (1854-1920) tradesman and storekeeper in Chortitza, also a painter. His wife, Anna, born Willms (1863-1925) was a descendant of the minister, Gerhard Willms who, together with Elder David Epp received from Czar Paul I, in 1800, in the capital of the country Petersburg, the document known among our people as "The Privilege". The fate of this family is typical of many others. Son Julius, a lawyer, died of typhoid fever in 1920; son Peter, died of typhoid fever, 1919; daughter Anna died when young; son Jakob disappeared during the civil war; daughter Katharina reached East Prussia but was forcefully taken back to the Soviet Union; daughter Anna was sent into exile; son David, Red Cross soldier in the First World War, just disappeared; and daughter Justina reached Germany but, against her will, was forced back to her "homeland", the Soviet Union. [HR 217] (N:352)

This is a photo of Justina (Niebuhr) Lepp, Chortitza. [HR 172]

This is a photo of a modern farmstead in Chortitza. [HR 100]

This is a photo of an old building in Chortitza (HR 49).

This is a photo of the Old Oak [Chortitza oak] as it looked years ago when well-built Mennonite homes still surrounded it, and when generations of Mennonites grew up in the shade of the tree or, at times, in its branches. [HR 50].

The photo was taken by Rudolph Zaft. In the photo is his wife Olga Zaft. She is holding daughter Lilly Zaft (b. 1936). The boy in the tree is Paul Hahn. Sitting is daughter Ida Zaft and standing by the pol is son Arthur Zaft.