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This photo is a formal family photo taken on the occasion of the engagement of Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s grandparents, Anna Wiens and Dietrich Rempel, standing. Anna’s younger brother Peter stands at the right. Anna’s parents (and Elfrieda (Gossen) Dyck’s great-grandparents) Margareta (Dück) Wiens and Peter Wiens sit in the middle with their younger daughter, Gretchen (Margaret) seated on a low stool at the right. Peter and Margareta Wiens owned the store in Halbstadt, located across the street from the pharmacy.

This photo is of a wedding annoucement, likely of Walja and Heinrich Wiebe, 8 May 1977.

This photo is of Hans Fast with his grandson, Heini Wiebe. "For Brother Gerhard as a remembrance of his brother-in-law."

The 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, ON: Pandora Press, 2000), p.66.

This photo is of Sara Fast and some of her children sitting around the table after sharing a meal.
"Not nearly all are on this picture. We had already forgotten. Only Willy and Hans Dueck came later. March 1962."
Left-right: Njuta, Kaetchen, Mariane Ens, Jakob Ens, Grandchild Ira, Agathe, Tina Ens, Sara Fast, Tina Tiessen and Lolja.

This photo is of a funeral, likely Hans Fast, who died
18 October, 1962:
Names: Sister-in-law Tina Ens, brother-in-law Franz Tiessen, sister-in-law Ana Tiessen, I, our children and grandchildren.

The young Unruh family. 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. 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.

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.

The wedding of Elisabeth Stobbe and Dietrich Baerg. 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 (Helena) and Agnes were the children of Heinrich Baerg and Aganetha (Schellenberg) Baerg, formerly of Tiegenhagen, and Alida’s mother’s maternal cousins.

Wedding of Katharina Riediger, to Kurt Hecker, a German officer. The family members beside the bride are, left to right: Agnes Reinhold (Rogalski), a girl adopted by the Riediger family; Jakob the oldest son; Lisa, a daughter; Susanna and Johann J. (Jakob) Riediger, parents of the bride and grandparents of Gisela Harms. Johann, the youngest son and father of Giesela Harms, stands in front of his parents wearing a white shirt. To the right of the parents are the three sisters, left to right: Susanna (Hamm), Mariechen (Hildebrand) and Margaretha (Fischer). The married names of the sisters and Agnes are given in brackets. Lisa died in her youth. Johann J. (Jakob) Riediger was a church elder who helped take care of orphans (Waisen Ältester). This photo is a copy of the original photo in Riediger-1