This photo is shows the participants at a Summer Bible Course instructed by Professor E.F. Stroeter, hosted on the estate of David J. Dick at Apanlee, near Steinbach, Molotschna in 1902.
Back row (l-r): Peter B. Harder, teacher and secretary of agricultural society, Crimea; Nicolai Esau, land owner in Friendenruh, shot by the G.P.U; Abram P. Nachtigal, minister in Alexanderkrone, later Arnaud, Manitoba and Yarrow, B.C.; Jacob P. Dueck, Lichtfelde, teacher from Sagradovka; Heinrich S. Ediger, Gnadenfeld, doctor from Crimea; David J. Dick, estate owner of Apenlee, who hosted this assembly free for one month, chairman of the Alexanderkrone school society, martyr in a night-time murder at Apenlee in 1919; Wilhelm J. Peters, teacher from Kornejewka, later minister in Steinbach, Manitoba; Julius Heinrichs, medical doctor in Tiege near Orloff; Nicoail J. Dick, estate owner from Brodsky, brother of the host; Abram A. Loewen teacher in Tiegenhagen, later minister/administrator at Alt-Berdjansk and then at hospital in Tiege; Jacob A. Loewen, teacher in Lichtenau, minister of the E.M.B.G [Allianz], died at Moore Park, Manitoba (school district south of Minnedosa).
Row 2 (from back): Jacob P. Boese, Tiegenhagen, teacher and minister, died in Arnaud, Manitoba; Johannes Unruh, Muntau, teacher, son of Elder Heinrich D. Unruh; Cornelius Loewen, Muntau, teacher in Gnadenheim, Molotschna; Gerhard A. Wall, Friedensfeld, teacher in Lindenau; died at Omsk, Siberia; Heinrich Hader, teacher in Steinbach, Molotschna, son-in-law of poet/minister Bernhard Harder; Daniel Fisch, teacher in Pordenau and Gnadenfeld; Jacob W. Lorenz, Tiege, minister from Schoenfeld, later in Hutchinson, Kansas; Johann Doerksen, teacher and minister in Friedensruh near Gnadenfeld, later in Kuban; Gerhard J. Thielmann, Friedensfeld, teacher in Gnadenfeld, in business in Halbstadt; later in Virgil, Ontario; Anna Dick, daughter of the host, Jacob J. Braun, Alexanderwohl, teacher at Fabrikerwiese, then a partner in the publishing house called Raduga in Halbstadt; Anna Willms, daughter of Peter J. Willms, Halbstadt, later Winnipeg, Manitoba; Peter Wiebe, Lichtenau, teacher in Schardau near Gnadenfeld, then in Kleefeld; Jacob Quiring (Jr.), Ph.D., Koeppenthal, Samara, evangelist, Egyptologe, died in the U.S.A.; Jacob J. Dick, Steinbach near Gnadenfeld, estate owner, brother of the host; Kornelius P. Bergmann, Ladekopp, teacher at Brodsky estate, Schoenau and Halbstadt, died in exile in 1937; Wilhelm W. Sudermann, teacher at Deaf-mute school in Tiege near Ohrloff.
Row 3 (from back): David H. Dirks, Gnadenfeld, son of Elder and missionary Heinrich Dirks, teacher in Orechoff, then missionary in Sumatra (Indonesia), died there; unknown, David G. Thiessen, brother of minister Jacob G. Thiessen, Vancouver, B.C.; Jacob H. Janzen, Gnadenfeld, teacher in Rudnerweide, Friedensdorf, Rosenort, Tiege (Maedchenschule), later the Elder of the United Mennonite Church, Waterloo, Ontario; Bernhard B. Wiens, teacher in Ladekopp, Halbstadt Osterwick and other places, then Waterloo and Vancouver; Peter P. Enns, Gnadenheim, then Rosenort, P.O. Halbstadt; Rosenzeig, Jewish christian, later Apostat; Gerhard H. Derksen, teacher, Blumstein, Petershagen, Halbstadt, Schoenfeld, minister in the E.M.B.G. (Allianz), died at Pigeon Lake, Manitoba; David J. Sudermann, son of Jacob J. Sudermann, Apanlee; Nicolai N. Schmidt, Steinbach estate owner; Johann J. Rempel, Lichtenau, teacher, later retailer at Davlekanovo, Ufa; Heinrich N. Wiebe, Rueckenau, teacher in Neukirch and shortly thereafter immigrated to Canada, Herbert, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Row 4 (from back): Mariechen Guenther, Orloff, married first Gerhard D. Duerksen, Tiege, second marriage to Jacob G. Neufeld, Lindena; Eva Sudermann, Apanlee, wife of Julius J. Heinrichs, Halbstadt; unknown from Kleefled?; Mrs. Helena Peters, wife of Wilhelm J. Peters in the top row; Jacob Dyck, teacher in Crimea; Gustav Aron Rempel, Gnadenfeld, teacher and minister in Konteniusfeld near Gnadenfeld; Abram A. Klassen, Elder of the Halbstadt church, died in exile; Mrs. Heinrich D. Guenther nee Reimer, Orloff; Mrs. Jacob J. Sudermann nee Schroeder, Apanlee; Jacob J. Sudermann, Apanlee, estate owner; Jacob J. Esau, Lichtfelde-Friedensruh, teacher and minister, on school counsel, co-founder of secondary school in Alexanderkrone; Mrs. Jacob J. Esau, Friedensruh; Anna Sudermann, Apanlee, later she became wife of Pastor Jack, died in Germany; Mrs. Heinrich J. Dick, Brodsky estate, "Tante Baerbel"; Louise Sudermann, Apanlee, married Jacob J. Heinrichs, Rueckenau near Halbstadt.
Row 5 (from back): Unknown, maybe a Toews from Kuban; D.P. Enns, teacher at Schoenau, Spat, Davlekanovo, Alexanderkrone, later a bookkeeper in Rosthern, Saskatchewan; Hermann A. Rempel, Marienthal, teacher in Lichtelde, Alexanderkrone, Schoenfeld, died as a Sanitaeter in Bersk-Litovk, Poland; Peter P. Loewen, Fuerstenau near Halbstadt, teacher and Homeopathic doctor; Heinrich D. Guenther, Orloff, estate owner and minister in the E.M.B.G. (Allianz), died in Winnipeg; Mrs. Jacob Sudermann, mother of Jacob J. Suderman, Apanlee; Professor E.F. Stroeter, course instructor and chairman of the Jewish Mission in Germany; Mrs. Jacob Dick, Brodsky estate, mother of the brothers David, Nicolai and Jacob J. Dick; Jacob Quiring, Sr., Elder of the Koeppentall, Samara church; Baron Uekskyl from Riga, Evangelis and minister; Mrs. David J. Dick, Apanlee, hostess of this large assembly, martyr of a night time murder at Apanlee.
Row 6 (from back): Johann J. Penner, Blumstein, teacher at Brodsky estate; Heinrich A. Toews, teacher and minister in Samara, later lived in New Westminister, B.C.; Kornelius Klassen, Prangenau, died shortly after this event; Benjamin B. Janz, Konteniusfeld near Gnadenfeld, teacher and minister at Tiege, Chairman of the Mennonite Agricultural Society, later lived in Coaldale, Alberta; Nicolai Dyck, teacher and minister in Nikolaidorf near Gnadenfeld; Peter P. Penner, teacher and minister at Steinbach, Rueckenau, Lichtfelde; Daniel J. Fast, Rueckenau, teacher at Hierschau, short thereafter immigrated to Canada, was a teacher at Rosthern Academy, lived at Main Centre; Johann J. Willms, Kleefeld, teacher and preacher in Siberia, immigrated to the U.S.A., died in Pennsylvannia in 1944, where he ministered to Russian refugee with German sermons. [This list was assembled by the late D.P. Enns and published in Der Bote, 25 May 1949, p. 5.] / translated by AHR.