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This photo shows a group known as 45th Artillery Regiment under the command of a Penner as part of the Russian (Soviet Union or USSR) armed forces. There are 35 Mennonites on the photo, who all have various positions within the regiment. Included are the following: Dietrich Hiebert, Franz Buhr and David Janzen (in the front); Gerhard Penner, Johann Fast and Jacob Friesen (in the back).

This is a photo of U. S. Mennonite Relief workers in Russia. They are posing on a yard with shrubbery in the background. The men are dressed in suit and tie. (Left to right): Mrs. Barbara Hofer with her husband, David Hofer, Arthur W. Slagel, H. C. Yoder and Peter H. Unruh.

This is a photo of a woman's choir in a church in Uzun-Agatch.

This is a photo of a man, probably H. C. Yoder, wearing glasses, dressed in white shirt and tie, seated at a smaller desk in a room with a map and posters on the walls.

This photo is a portrait of the AMLV (Mennonite Agricultural Union) Staff, 1925.
Peter Froese (middle, center) and C.F. Klassen (middle, far right) with Franz F. Isaak beside him.
Franz C. Thiessen (middle, far left).

This is a photo of three men in warm winter clothing, posed beside a car. (Left to right): Mr. Siemens, G. G. Hiebert from California in long, hooded fur coat, Peter H. Unruh from Kansas in fur-collared coat.

This photograph is of a Russian police officer in the film And When They Shall Ask. The movie was filmed in Winnipeg but depicts a scene from the Soviet Union.

This photograph is of a father, played by Isaac Koop, and his daughter, played by Erica Martens, in a train car leaving Russia in the video And When They Shall Ask. The father is playing a harmonica and the daughter is singing.

This photograph is the cover shot for the film And When They Shall Ask. The photo is a close-up of a young Mennonite girl hiding behind the wheel of a wooden cart. The photo depicts a scene from the USSR but was filmed in Manitoba. Playing the role of the girl is Michelle Schritt (now Shattuck).

This photo shows The home of Jacob Epp #1(11)8 and other relatives, i.e. sister Anna (d.1944), brother Bernhard, etc. in the Caucasus in the 1930s. Brother Gerhard #1(11)(13) (d.1943), next to the motorcycle, is here on a visit. Walking in foreground are Jacob’s wife Anna/Ani with Leni/Liena. Talking to Gerhard is Hans Tiesz? These relatives had to leave the Caucasus in the early 1940s.

This photo is of ministers laying their hands on the heads of the baptismal candidates at the Donskoj church.

This photo is of a baptismal service of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists church in Olshansk. The candidates are dressed in white and are wading into a river.

This is a photo of Vladimir A. Kuroedov, chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs of the Soviet Union government Council of ministers, reading a formal statement to World Conference participants. Orthodox church Patriarch Pimen (right, in white headdress), conference host, looks on.

This is a photo of participants at a meeting. This meeting too takes place under the elevating quotation from Stalin. "Life is better; life now is merrier". As long as the great father Stalin was around, there was not a soul in this great realm that could have dared to dispute loudly the truth of the above quotation. [HR 267]