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John N. Klassen fonds

  • CA MHSBC 157
  • Fonds
  • 1898-2019

The fonds consists of the following series:
1) Maps - 51 maps of Europe and Asia created by Karl Stumpp and some unknown cartographers. - Map Cabinet.
2) Manuscripts -three manuscripts written by Abraham H. Unruh, Henry Ekkert and an unknown author. - (1 file) Box 431
3) Photographs

Klassen, John N., 1929-2020

Miscellaneous written works fonds

  • CA MHSBC 180
  • Fonds
  • 2018

1) Reports - Tribute to H.A. Neufeld & Peter Toews, by J.J. Wiens. Submitted by Maria Kroeker - (1 file) Box 374
2) "Ein Jahr Gefaengnis" (One year in Prison) by Franz Martin Hamm (1901-1971) Written in German, includes English translation - (1 file) Box 374
3) Lists - Mennonites in Politics, 1997 - (1 file) Box 374
4) Medical Text - Anatomie und Physiologie! Menno Colony, Paraguay 1959, by Anny Giesbrecht. A German language, handwritten, bound medical textbook with diagrams. Some handwritten notes and exam papers are included - (1 file) Box 374
5) P. Thiessen - Journal of Poetry & Music, 1917. A handwritten journal in Russian & German (some Gothic script) which includes musical score written in Ziffern. Writer could be Peter Isaak Thiessen. - (1 file) Box 374
6) The Fresno Bee - "Call Em Muppies" & "If there wasn't guilt, you'd just be a Yuppie" 1986 - (1 file) Box 374
7) David Duerksen, translation of Der Bote article "Reise Prediger" - (1 file) Box 374
8) Military Exemption, Prussia 1868: An account by Aeltester Peter Bartel - (1 file) Box 374
9) John A. Harder - Travel Diary March 14 - July 25, 1955 to Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay & Uruguay. German Language. - (1 file) Box 374
10) The Story of Peter Franz Froese, "Begegnungen, Zusammenarbeit und engere Bekanntschaft mit P.F. Froese" by Cornelius Reimer N.D. - (1 file) Box 374
11) Shapansky, Maria (Barwich), Hardbound Journal of handwritten songs in Ziffern and a diary of the journey to Canada from Adelsheim, 1943-1948. - (1 file) Box 374
12) Report on Sagradowka by D. Wiebe, Berlin 1946 (in English) - (1 file) Box 374
13) Echo Verlag - Constitution N.D., October 1959 edition and a list of books by Arnold Dyck. - (1 file) Box 374
14) Walter & Mary Balzer, letter from D & L Pauls, 1962; Poem: The Blessings that Remain, Memorial bulletin for Mary Balzer, 2015 - (1 file) Box 374
15 Hans Kasdorf, "Flammen Unausloeschen, 1991 - (1 file) Box 374
16) Agnes Huebert, Recipe Book from Steiglitz-Berlin, (in German Gothic script), 1913 - (1 file) Box 374

Unknown

Peter J. and Elfrieda Dyck Papers

  • US MCUSAA HM1/892
  • Collection
  • 1939-2010

Personal papers of long-time Mennonite Central Committee workers best known for their work to resettle Mennonite refugees after World War II.  These papers are divided into two series:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1939-2010

(2) Sound Recordings, 1984-1985

Dyck, Peter J., 1914-2010

Albrecht family fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1905-2009 , predominant 1905-1926

This fonds contains a composite photograph consisting of 167 individual portraits of Mennonite men that served in the Imperial Russia's Forestry service at Razin, a photograph of teacher Heinrich Johan Dueck (1862-1922) with students of school(Dueck was a teacher in Kleefeld, Gnadental and Klippenstal, Molotschna), and a 1903 funeral photo of 18 year-old Heinrich Albrecht of Prangenau (South Russia) showing the coffin being transported with a horse drawn carriage. This fonds also includes background information on the Razin Forestei where members of the Warkentin and Albrecht family served plus genealogical information on the Albrecht, Peters, von Kampen, and Warkentin families. Some of the data is an update for the published family history book entitled, "John Warkentin and his Descendants 1820-1990".

Albrecht family

Elma Esau Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.308
  • Collection
  • 1893-2000

Elma E. Esau was born September 14, 1917, to Edward and Clara (Claassen) Esau near Whitewater, Kansas. She graduated from Whitewater High School in 1935 and attended Bethel College for two years. She returned to Bethel and completed her BA degree in 1969. From 1943 to 1981 she volunteered and then worked for MCC and its subsidiary, MTS (Menno Travel Service). Elma Esau began her MCC service at the Ypisilanti, Michigan, relief training unit in 1943. She then worked to set up and manage relief clothing centers in Ephrata, Pennsylvania; Kitchener, Ontario; and Newton, Kansas. In April, 1945, she went to the MCC Center in London, England, and from there on to serve in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. In the summer of 1947 she traveled around the US speaking to women’s groups at Mennonite churches about MCC’s relief work in Europe, and then she remained at Akron until April, 1949, when she went to Gronau, Germany, for additional relief service. In 1951 she escorted Mennonite refugees to Brazil and Uruguay. After two years in the MCC Personnel Office in Akron, she began her work for MTS in Newton in 1953 and continued there until 1958. In 1959 she ran the MTS office in Amsterdam. From 1962 through 1965 she directed the MTS office in Beirut, returning from mid-1966 to 1967, when the office was evacuated during the 6 Day War. She worked in numerous other locations for brief terms before returning to the MTS Akron office from 1969 to 1980, where she directed the tour department and lead many tours. She retired to her family farm near Whitewater in 1981 and moved to Kidron-Bethel in 1991. She was a lifelong member of the Emmaus Mennonite Church. She passed away on November 16, 2009. The collection provides unique and extensive documentation, including original correspondence and photographs, of the MCC work with refugees during and after World War II. In her MTS career she kept diaries and photographs from the numerous tours she directed. She also collected tourist literature from the dozens of countries she visited, and during the steamship area, kept items like menus and tickets. This collection also contains the papers (1 cubic foot) of Edward Esau (Elma’s father), who was born in Hohendorf, Am Trakt, Russia, on November 27, 1887. He immigrated to the United States in 1908 to avoid the Russian Forestry Service. He lived for a year with family in Bessie/Cordell, Oklahoma, and then moved to the Whitewater/Potwin area of Kansas. From 1908 through 1936 (except 1918-1920) he received frequent letters from his family and friends in Russia, primarily from his brother, Gerhard, and sister, Renate. The letters he received constitute almost the entirety of his papers and are all in German, but many have been translated and published by Elma in Russia Letters, 1995.

Esau, Elma, 1917-2009

Cornelius Krahn Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.165
  • Collection
  • 1920-1990

Comprehensive collection of Krahn's correspondence, research notes, lecture notes, etc. from his student days up to his death.

See also elecrec/acc276 for items on Krahn’s student days at the university of Heidelberg.

Krahn, Cornelius, 1902-1990

John J. Kroeker and Katherine Janzen Kroeker Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.501
  • Collection
  • 1890-1980

extensive collection reflecting contacts in Mennonite communities in Russia, Germany, Canada, United States, Paraguay; business papers, writing and translating projects including work for Gerald Winrod; some diaries; some material related to his father Jakob Kroeker and the Licht im Osten mission

Kroeker, John Jacob, 1894-1964

Johann Jantzen Diary

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.549
  • Collection
  • 1839-1976

Diary begun in 1839 and continued by descendants.
Also English translation of 1976.

Jantzen, Johann, 1823-1903

Arthur Slagel Papers 1920-1943

  • US MCUSAA HM1/589
  • Collection
  • 1920-1973

A small set of personal papers including correspondence to a cousin describing relief work in the Middle East, correspondence to and from Vesta Zook, articles written by Slagel (including the publication of portions of his diary kept during his relief service), obituaries and other clippings, photographs of Arthur Slagel, Don Slagel, and relief work abroad, genealogical information, and a Hesston College choral program.

Slagel, Arthur W., 1891-1943

Jacob Goossen family fonds

  • CA MHC 578
  • Collection
  • 1890-1972

This fonds consists of 35 photographs, mostly taken in Russia, of the extended Goossen family that lived on the Wintergruen estate, founded by Jacob Goossen (1858-1920). The photos are of high quality and show a wealthy Mennonite family in Russia. Included is a rare photograph of the interior of the Schoensee Mennonite Church.

Goossen family (Descendants of Jacob *1858)

Nik Dyck Photograph Collection

  • CA CMBS NP131-01
  • Collection
  • 1870-1960

These are photographs donated by Nik Dyck (or his family).

Unknown

Sarah Dyck photograph collection

  • CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.312.1
  • Series
  • [between 1915 and 1960]

Family photographs collected by Sarah Dyck of life in Russia and Canada.The family immigrated to Canada in 1924.

Dyck, Sarah (Dick)

Nikolai (Nick) Goossen fonds

  • CA MHSBC 191
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1958

"Strangers in a Foreign Land" by Nicholai Goossen. This story appeared as a series of articles in the Mennonitische Rundschau. Originals of the articles as well as photocopies and an English translation are included. - (1 file) Box 421

Goossen, Nikolai F., 1898-1958

Russian Relief 1918-1935 (American Mennonite Relief AMR)

  • US MCC US IX-01
  • Series
  • 1918-1935

Files include records of MCC work from 1920 to 1935. Sub-series include Levi Mumaw's correspondence (Executive Secretary 1920-1935), immigration files of the first 62 refugees assisted by MCC, records of the material aid and efforts to assist refugees in Constantinople (present Istanbul, Turkey).

Mennonite Central Committee (Akron, Pennsylvania)

Nicolai Thiessen fonds

  • CA MHC PP
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1917, 1923, 1924, 1935

This fonds contains 120 letters that Nicolai Thiessen received mainly from his father, KIaas Thiessen (1844-1918) and siblings of Schoenfeld, Russia, during the years that he served as a missionary in Java, Dutch East Indies (named Indonesia after 1949). (A few letters are from other friends or acquaintances.) The letters contain hints about the nature of the mission work and preparation for it, and also they tell of conditions in Russia from 1905-1917. The letters contain information about the economic, political, social and religious life in the Mennonite colonies in South Russia. Deaths in the community are often reported. There are several letters written a brother from the Forestry Service camp. One letter is dated 1924 and one 1935.

Thiessen, Nicolai, 1874-1949

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