Mennonite Archival Information Database

CA MHC 629-G-27.0
Item
1914

Part of Mennonite Genealogy Inc. Photograph Collection

Portrait of a young man wearing a uniform with brass buttons down the front and a high collar. He is wearing a mustache. This could be David Goosen (G-26 G-25)

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Departure day at Lichtenau train station (13 July 1924)

CA MHC PP-4-044-309.0
Item
1924-07-13

Part of Gerhard Lohrenz fonds

This photo shows departure day scene at the Lichtenau train station. The train is in the background against the horizon; a crowd has gathered to bid the emigrants farewell; an empty wagon is seen in the foreground with several boys sitting on the wagon side rail. This photo is a slightly different photo than the one published in Gerhard Lohenz's Heritage Remembered ( HR 261).

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Isbrand Friesen

CA MHC 478-22.0
Item
1908

Part of Henry D. and Helen Wiebe Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Isbrand Friesen who lived in Orloff.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Jakob Epp

CA MHC 732-3
Item
[191-?]

Part of Peter and Helena Epp family photo collection

This is a photograph of Jakob Epp as a young man wearing what looks like a military style suit jacket.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Jakob Jakob Neufeld

CA MHC 478-10
Item
1908

Part of Henry D. and Helen Wiebe Photograph Collection

This is a photo of Jakob Jakob Neufeld from Karpowka, Memrik.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Johann Bueckert

CA MHC 478-63.0
Item
1907

Part of Henry D. and Helen Wiebe Photograph Collection

This is photo of of Johann P. Bueckert who served as a minister and administrator of the forestry camp where Dr. Henry D. Wiebe's father, David Wiebe served in Russia. Later, in Canada he was the founding minister of the Blumenorter Mennonite Church of Manitoba. This item was signed and dated December 11, 1909 presumably by Johann Bueckert and given to David Wiebe.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Lichtenau train station

CA MAO Hist.Mss.1.291/12-13
Item
1924-06-23

Part of Franz Tiessen and Anna (Toews) Tiessen photograph collection

Note on back of photograph: "In Lichtenau auf dem Banhof U.S.S.R. 23 June 1924 als wir nach Canada fuhren. 47 Wagen 1400 Menschen." Train station at Lichtenau on June 23, 1924 when the Peter J. and Elizabeth Tiessen family left for Canada. The train had 47 cars and held 1,400 people. David Kruger has been identified as the older man in a cap standing on the far left of the photograph, partly out of frame.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Mennonite Immigrants boarding a train in Lichtenau, Molotschna

CA CMBS NP080-01-3
Item
July 1924

Part of Emigration from Russia Photograph Collection

This photo is of Mennonite boarding the train at Lichtenau, Molotschna in July 1924 to immigrate to Canada. People are standing in the box car and around the door on the ground posing for a photo. In the box car far right is Benjamin B. Janz (BB Janz). This was the 2nd train departing in early July 1924.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)

Mennonite Immigrants boarding train at the Lichtenau Station, Molotschna

CA CMBS NP080-01-2
Item
July 1924

Part of Emigration from Russia Photograph Collection

This was the 2nd train of emigrants that departed in early July 1924 from the Lichtenau train station. The names Philip D. Cornies, P.D. Nickel, H. H. Bartel plus 2 more in Russian script are written on the top corner of this item.

Kivatitsky, J.F (Jospeh Fishelevich)