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File consists of the following item:
1) "Journeying through this World and its Stages", autobiography of Jacob Hoeppner - (1 file) Box 233

File consists of the following item:
1) "Ihr Werdet Meine Zeugen Sein", autobiography of Hermann Jantzen,1866-1959, missionary to the Mohammedans.
Translation: "You Shall Be My Witnesses". 167pages. - (1 file) Box 233

File consists of the following item:
1) Peter Jakob Konrad, 1890 - 1989, autobiography. - (1 file) Box 233

File consists of the following:
1) "He Has Qualified Us: Memories of our parents Henry and Sara Kornelsen", autobiography of Henry Kornelsen, 1890-1974 and Sara Reimer Kornelsen, 1897-2003. Translated into English by daughter Elvira Dueck in 1995.
2) Kornelsen family register beginning in 1858.
3) How Small Events and Happenings Contributed to a Large Mennonite Emigration in 1923 by H.H. Kornelsen, translated by John B. Toews. 12 pages.
-- All documents contained in one file, Box 233

File consists of the following:
1) "Russland, Die Deutschen am Karman:Ein Steppebild von den Jahren 1770 bis 1780" written in 1902", autobiography of Joseph M Linenberger, 1838-1911. Translated into English by Mrs. Louise Rylko in 1954
2) "Grandfather's Story" by Helen L Hall. - (1 file) Box 233

File consists of the following:
1) "Meine Lebenserfahrungen fuer meinen lieben Kindern"; autobiography. No birth or death date given. - (1 file) Box 234

File consists of the following items:
1) "Recollections of Jelanskaya"; autobiography of Gertrude Reimer (nee Wiebe) 1884-1988. Gertrude Reimer was the wife of Gerhard Reimer, who was a Mennonite minister. He died 1931.
2) "Recollections of Childhood and Youth"; autobiography of Lydia Thielman (nee Reimer). Writtten in 1975. - (1 file) Box 234

File consists of the following items
1) "Those Who Sow in Tears Will Reap with Songs of Joy"; autobiography of Katharina Sawatzky, 1915-2009
English Translation. 81 pages.
2) Die Stimmlosen, German. 67 pages - (1 file) Box 234

File consists of the following items:
1) "What a Heritage" an autobiography of Elizabeth Schulz (nee Unruh), 1866-1943.
It recounts the trek into central Asia and emigration to America. 147 pages.
2) Correspondence from Anna Keyes (Schulz) to John B Toews, 1972
3) Maps of North America and Russia - (1 file) Box 234

The file consists of the following items:
1) "Meine Lebensbeschreibung"; Chapter 1-5 - (1 file) Box 234
2) "Meine Lebensbeschreibung"; Chapter 6-9 - (1 file) Box 234
3) "Meine Lebensbeschreibung"; Chapter 10-12 - (1 file) Box 234
4) "Meine Lebensbeschreibung"; Chapter 13-14 - (1 file) Box 234

File consists of the following items:
1) "My Life: the Russian Years, 1900-1919, autobiography of Gerhard Wiens (1900- ). Edited by James Urry and used in his research for his doctoral thesis at Oxford University. 61 pages.
2) Memories of my Trip to Russia in 1914 by Olga Wiens

• (1 file) Box 235

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Autobiography of Gerhard J Derksen, "Lebensgeschichte von Gerhard J. Derksen, Yarrow, B.C." written in 1961. - (1 file) Box 235

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Autobiography, "Mein Lebenslauf" by H. J. Willms - (1 file) Box 235

File consists of the following item:
Etwas aus meinem Leben, an autobiogrpahy of Abram P. Willms. 80 pages. - (1 file) Box 235

File consists the following items:
1) "Insel in der Steppe: Erlebnisse des Haeftlings", Autobiography, 98 pages
2) A list of 91 residents of Blumenort and neighbouring villages who were forced into prison camps and eventually perished.
3) "The World of Abram Berg (1912-1993)", an essay translated and edited by John B Toews
4) Correspondence from Olga Berg to John B. Toews. March 3, 1995.
5) Eight photographs of Abram Berg in Karaganda
6) One 4" floppy disk of "Insel in der Steppe"
-- all documents in one file, - (1 file) Box 233