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Archives for May 2015

May 26, 2015

Guenter Rahn, born 1933 in Goldau, West Prussia

My maternal grandparents were Jacob Driedger and Anna Dyck; my paternal grandparents were Peter Rahn and Anna Tjahrt. I was born in Goldau, West Prussia to Emma and Johannes Rahn. My siblings are Werner, who died in 1993, Ingrid, and Manfred. My first memory is of riding a horse down the gravel road when I […]

Article by Candace Nast / Filed Under: Stories Then /

May 19, 2015

Gertrude Hamm Toews, born 1921 in Shostak, Russia

I was five years old when our family arrived in Kitchener, Ontario. My parents, Jacob and Olga Hamm, had been able to pay their travel fare from Russia to Canada. I can remember a rainy Saturday evening when I was sitting on a wicker suitcase waiting for my father while he looked for our Reimer […]

Article by Candace Nast / Filed Under: Stories Then / Tagged With: Russia

May 12, 2015

Elizabeth Neufeld Hoch: born June 6, 1922 in Kronsthal, Russia

When I was about three years old, I got my new Sunday dress dirty. I was afraid my parents would punish me so I looked for a place to hide. Our home was just two houses back of the village variety store; I ran and hid in the barrel where the store owners kept their […]

Article by Candace Nast / Filed Under: Stories Then / Tagged With: Russia

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