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This file consists of the following items:
1) "Meine Heimkehr" by B.B. Janz translated from German by daughter Martha Dueck, nee Janz. January, under the title "Follow Their Example" 1999. 13 pages.
Kurze Biographie des Bruder B.B. Janz von H.H. Kornelsen, Coaldale Alberta, 2 pages.
Abschiedsrede von Bruder B.B. Janz; 6 pages. Box 234
2) "Benjamin B. Janz (1877-1964): A Russian Mennonite Moses" by John B. Toews, 21 pages. Box 234
3) Commemorative Service program 1945, 12 pages.
4) "Profiles of Mennonite Faith Benjamin B.Janz (1877-1964), 2 pages of text and 2 photos taken in 1925 and 1950.
5) "Mother - Maria Rogalsky Janz" 5 pages. Box 234
6) Birthday greeting, Hand printed with a song from from Glaubensstimme songbook # 625.
7) Memorial Funeral Service for B.B. Janz with photo. Garden Chapel Funeral Homes, Abbotsford, B.C. Box 234
8) Margaret Martens Janz, "As I Remember Him" written by Janz's daughter-in-law. 7 handwritten pages"B.B. Janz: Notes Made by his Brother, Jacob B Janz", Coaldale, Alberta. (family history and letters) .Taken from "Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Vol1 no.1, 50 pages; English translation
9) Janz, Jacob B "Benjamin B. Janz: Nach Aufzeichnungen seines lieblichen Bruders. Written by Janz's brother.12 pages;
Jacob B. Janz, "B.B. Janz: Notes made by his brother, Jacob B Janz", Coaldale, Alberta. (family history and letters) .Taken from "Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Vol1 no.1, 50 pages; English translation by Jacob B. Janz;
B.B. Janz correspondence taken from the A.A. Friesen Collection in North Newton Kansas.
To Dutch Mennoninte Relief Agency 1921;
To Study Commission for Foreign Emergencies, 1922;
To Study Commission Board, 1922; to B.H. Unruh, 1922;
To Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization, 1922 & 1923;
To Leading Brethren of the Conferences and Organizations of the Mennonites in America, 1922 , 1923; To
Mennonite Colonization Association of North America and the Mennonite Executive Committee of Colonization, 1923;
To The Representatives of the Russian Mennonites Abroad, 1923; To The Brothers Peter H. Unruh and David Toews, 1923;
To The Representatives of the American Mennonite Churches. 1923;
To Mennonite Committees in Canada and the United States; 1924;
To The executive of the Mennonite Colonization Association.of North America 1924; 1925;
To David Toews , 1925;
To my dear ones in Tiege, 1926;
To Leadership of the Colonization Authorities in Canada, 1925
10) Tribute to the Janz family by Mary Neumann (Janz), 5 pages. - (1 file) Box 235.
11) J.J. Thiessen, Begraebnisansprache, gehalten gelegentlich der Beerdigung des heimatgegangenen Bruder's B.B. Janz in Coaldale am 20 October 1964. 4 pages

File consists of the following items:
1) Table of Contents of 20 pages written in English; A list of journal articles written by Hermann Neufeld; notes written by John B. Toews; Family Group Sheet is included.
2) Book 1 "Lebensgeschichte oder Tagebuch von Hermann und Katarina Neufeld". Hermann Neufeld, 1860-1931, was an evangelist. He was ordained Bishop of the Mennonite Brethren Church in 1899. 528 pages
3) Book1 Unsere Lebensgeschichte, Typed, begun in 1899 , 145 pages and a Revised Version, 77 pages.
4) Book II Lebensgeschichte oder Tagebuch, 1904-1911, 138 pages.
5) Book III Unsere Lebensgeschichte, 1912-1917, 138 pages.
6) Missionsreisen 1904-1905, 77 pages.
7) Die Rechnung von den Missionsreisen seit 1888 bis 1919; Im Auftrage der Bundeskonference der Mennoniten Bruedergemeinde in Russland. 1926. 77 pages typed and 233 pages handwritten - (7 files) Box 235

This file consists of the following:
1) Biography of Johann Jacob Wedel, 1877-1937, born in Rudnerweide, moved to Neu Samara, then Slavgorod, then northern Siberia. He was banished to a prison camp and died in 1937. Mother Wedel trekked to Poland with her family but they were taken to a prison camp in Siberia. Robert Wall, one of the step-sons came to Canada wrote this report with the help of Jacob J Wedel of Abbotsford, B.C. 3 pages.
2) A short entry on Jakob Jakob Wedel 1873-1957 is included in this file.1page

This file contains
1) Letters from Jacob W. Toews to Gerhard J Toews , Peter Toews, Susanna Toews, Mariechen Toews, Agnes Toews, Peter Hiebert, Anna Hiebert.
2) Translation of an unsigned 2-page essay "Collectivization and an Ohrloff, Molotschna Family Letter from 1927 to 1934".
Translator John B Toews. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from sisters Susanna, Elisabeth, Agnes
2) Picture postcards to brother Gerhard J. Toews in Leamington, Ontario
3) Typed, fragments of letters, translated by John B. Toews
4) End notes by John B. Toews giving the death dates of father Jacob W. Toews, (1933), Mariechen Toews (1935) and the move to Melitopol of sisters Agnes, Susanna and Elisabeth

• (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) 1936 letters and cards from Elisabeth Toews, Susanna Toews, Agnes Toews in Melitopol written to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontario.
Accompanying explanations are added by Gerhard Toews in 1976 in Ruthven, Onatrio.
2) 1937 letters and cards from Elisabeth, Susanna and Agnes Toews in Melitopol were written to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontario.
Brother Peter was taken away during the night on October 1937.

• (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
Letters to Gerhard J Toews from his father Jacob and siblings , Elisabeth, Agnes, Peter and 2 unsigned letters.
Some of the letters are abbreviated, transcribed and translated by John B. Toews. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) 1938 letters and cards from Susanna Toews, Agnes Toews to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontaio. 1 cm.
2) 1939 letters from Liese (Elisabeth) Toews, Susanna Toews and Agnes Toews in Melitopol to brother Gerhard Toews in Ontario 1cm.
3) 1940-1941 letters and 2 cards from sisters in Melitopol to brother Gerhard Toews. 1cm.
An explanatory comment by Gerhard is included with the original letters.

• (1 file) Box 232

Series consists of the following file:
1) A letter from prisoner Andrei Pedasenko, a Russian young man, who was detained for proclaiming his conversion to Christianity.
He thanks his Brothers in the German colonies of Khortitza for their Christian witness. A copy of the letter written in the gothic script is translated into English 9 pages. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of the following:
1) Letters from Susanna Toews, Agnes Toews, Elisabeth Toews living in Melitopol to their brother Gerhard Toews living in Leamington, Ontario in 1935.
2) Seventeen Postcards and some envelopes are included with the letters. - (1 file) Box 232

This subseries consists of the following:
1) Letters from Maria Braun addressed to Katharine Hooge
2) Envelopes with postage stamps are included.

• (1 file) Box 232

This sub series consists of the following:
1) A letter written to the children of Mama Duekmann in Tiege in 1921 describes the scene of the massacre in Tiege and in the surrounding villages of Altenau, Gnadenfeld, Neu Halbstadt Zagradovka
2) A copy of this letter is the Gothic script. 6 pages. John B Toews transcribed it, 13 pages
3) Translation of Mama Duekmann's letter by John B. Toews. 13 pages. - (1 file) Box 232

This file consists of correspondence transposed to typed manuscript:
1) Correspondence of David Goerz and his father Heinrich Goerz, Agnetha Goerz, Johann Cornies, 15 cm pages, various pagination.
2) Handwritten notes by John B, Toews, 20 pages in English. Box 232