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This file consists of the following items:
1) Letters from Mariechen, Elisabeth, Susanna, Gerhard and their father Jacob W. Toews - Box 232
2) Letter from son, Kornelius Toews. - Box 232

This sub series consists of letters from David Goertz to his family.
1) Photocopied letters are faint and hard to read. They are in the Gothic script. 1863 - Box 232

This series consists of the following sub series:
1) Correspondence and Personal Writing
2) Letters, General
3) Evangelism
4) Kirgiskya Letters
5) Zagradowka Massacre
6) Heinrich Thiessen, Letters from Omsk
7) Abraham Klassen and Heinrich J. Willms Letters
8) P.H. Unruh Collection Letters. including Peter Dueck, P. Cornies, Wilhelm Sudermann B.B. Janz, Johann Loewen 1923,

This sub series consists of an extensive correspondence between the father, Jacob W. Toews in Ohrloff, S. Russia and his daughters Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews and other family members with his sons Gerhard and William Toews in Leamington, Canada .The letters date from 1927 to 1938. The subject under discussion is mainly emigration, collectivization, starvation, the Five Year Plan, taxation, survival, abductions, arrests, funerals and church life in very difficult times. Part of the family were able to emigrate to Canada but some remained in the Soviet Union.

Fonds is arranged in the following series:
1) Autobiography - 1893-1915 - (1 file) - Box 197
2) Correspondence - 1966-1971 - (1 file) - Box 197
3) Financial Records - 1966 - (1 file) - Box 197
4) Personal writing - 1966, "Vorwort" & "Historische Daten ueber den Ersatzdienst" by G. I. Peters, includes photocopied photos of Forestry President David J. Dyck and Forester Chliwitsky-Asow, 1889-1909. Includes 16 pages of photos, most of which are also in Series 5 below. - (1 file) - Box 197
5) Collection of personal experiences of Mennonites in military or alternate service in Russia during World War 1 (14 files in alphabetical order) - Box 197
6) Research essays by Victor Peters - 1976-1979- (1 file) - Box 197
7) Lectures and Sermons - 1940- (1 file) - Box 197
8) Publications - 1939 (Acta Nostra)- (1 file) - Box 197
9) Programs- (1 file) - Box 197
10) Collection of songs- (1 file) - Box 197