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- 1918-1931 (Creation)
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130 cm of textual material
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In 1920 Benjamin H. Unruh participated in a Studien-Kommission, sent out by the Mennonites of Russia to report on their conditions and suffering to the Mennonites in the United States. This Kommission consisted of B. H. Unruh and A. A. Friesen of Halbstadt, K. H. Warkentin from Waldheim , and John Esau of Ekaterinosla: all from the Ukraine. Unruh’s life work was served in the interests of his Russian Mennonite brethren in emigration and resettlement, working in this respect directly as commissioner for the Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization for the immigration to Canada 1921-25 and later, and for the Mennonite Central Committee in immigration to Paraguay 1930-33.
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This file consists of the following items:
1) Charter and dissolution, Constitution and mandate. 15 files
2) Correspondence, Letter from P.F. Froese to A Warkentin, 1929 , 3 pages
3) Reports
4) Manuscripts
5) Publications ( Files 1-15 ) Box 240
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Mennonitische Fluechtlings Fuersorge, 1918- 1931; charter and dissolution; correspondence; reports;manuscripts; publications
Prof B.H. Unruh, European Director ( Files 1-15 )
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- Unruh, Benjamin Heinrich, 1881-1959 (Subject)
- Friesen, Abram A., 1885-1948 (Subject)
- Mennonitische Fluechtlings Fuersorge (Subject)