Note: names have been changed When we come to this farm with its adobe brick buildings, we see no people or farm animals. Ben, our driver, goes to the door to announce our arrival. Our van load of visitors is invited into the large, spotless main room where Ben introduces us to the 62-year-old mother. […]
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 […]
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 […]
