MHA Publications


In the Shadow of Death: A Report from the Soviet Russia by Gerhard Fast

Translated and edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Erika Epp Marand (MHA, Winnipeg, Manitoba) 2024


The Dutch-Low German Background of the Mennonite eastward migrations in the 16, 18 and 19 Centuries by Benjamin Heinrich Unruh

Translated and edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Glenn H. Penner (MHA, Winnipeg, Manitoba) 2023

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The Settlement Work of Dutch Mennonites in the Vistula Valley between Fordon and Weissenberg until the End of the 18th Century by Herbert Wiebe (1952)

Translated and edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Glenn H. Penner (MHA, Winnipeg, Manitoba). June 2023.


On the Settlement of the Vistula Delta by the Mennonites by Karl-Heinz Ludwig (1961)

Machine translated (DeepL) and edited by Glenn Penner and Erika Marand. Mennonite Heritage Archives. April 2023. 

The History of the Village of Tiegenhagen (Prussia) by Erich Meyer

Translated by Elfriede Rempel. Mennonite Heritage Archives. 2023.


Heinrich Donner Diary (Tagebuch) (1774-1803) English Translation

Translated by Elfriede Rempel and Glenn Penner. Mennonite Heritage Archives, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Feb. 2023.

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Orenburg in the Urals by Peter P. Dyck English Translation

Machine translated using Abby FineReader software and DeepL. A scan of the Gothic script original was run through optical character recognition (OCR) and converted to Latin script by Conrad Stoesz using the Abby FineReader software. Glenn Penner then put this through the DeepL translator. Reformatted and edited by Erika Epp Marand, followed by editing by Glenn Penner. Mennonite Heritage Archives. 2022.


A Small Chronicle of the Mennonites in the Molotschna from the establishment of the colony until my 80th year by Abraham Braun

Translated by Elfriede Rempel and edited by Glenn H. Penner. Mennonite Heritage Archives, 2021


Autobiography of Johann Donner (1771-1830) English Translation

Translated and Edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Glenn H. Penner (MHA, Winnipeg, Manitoba). Mennonite Heritage Archives, May 2022


Diary of Johannes Dietrich Dyck (1826-1898): Volume 1 (1871-1888)

Transcribed and annotated by Willi Frese, Willi Risto and Alexander Wiens; and translated with additional notes by Alf Redekopp. Mennonite Heritage Archives, December 2020


Diary of Johannes Dietrich Dyck (1826-1898): Volume 2 (1889-1898)

Transcribed and annotated by Willi Frese, Willi Risto and Alexander Wiens; and translated with additional notes by Alf Redekopp. Mennonite Heritage Archives, May 2021


Mennonite Sect in Russia by S.D. Bondar

Translated from Russian by Jacob Rempel, 1982, English Translation edited by Peter Rempel and Glenn Penner, 2021. Mennonite Heritage Archives, July 2021


Mennonite Settlements in Central Poland by Erich L. Ratzlaff, editor of the “Mennonitische Rundschau”

Translated and edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Glenn H. Penner (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Mennonite Heritage Archives, July 2021


Peter Keppen’s 1837 Report on Mennonite sand German Colonists in the Taurida Governate, Russia – English

Translated by Wilhelm Friesen (Detmond, Germany) and Glenn Penner (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Mennonite Heritage Archives, March 2022


Resettlement of Prussian Mennonites to Russia under Alexander I by Grigory Grigoryevich Pisarevsky

Professionally translated by Danila Sobchakov for Glenn H. Penner
Edited by Glenn H. Penner. Mennonite Heritage Archives, October 2021


Settlement of Mennonite Dutch in the Vistula Delta from the Middle of the 16th Century until the Beginning of the Prussian Period by Horst Penner


The “Gnadenfelder Gemeindechronik” from the “Mennonitisches Jahrbuch” 1908 and 1909

Translated by Elfriede Rempel, Edited and Formatted by Glenn H. Penner. Mennonite Heritage Archives, March 2022


The Surnames of the West Prussian Mennonites by Gustav E. Reimer

Translated and edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Glenn H. Penner (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Mennonite Heritage Archives, October 2021


The Molotschna Mennonites by Franz Isaac

Translated and edited by Timothy H. Flaming (Cypress, California) and Glenn H. Penner (Winnipeg, Manitoba). Mennonite Heritage Archives, February 2022


The Molotschna Mennonites Name Index by Tim Flaming


The Old Colony Mennonites in Mexico by Walter Schmiedehaus

Translator: Erwin Jost, Reedley, California. Original typescript transcribed by Carole Grier Proofread and edited by Glenn H. Penner. Mennonite Heritage Archives, January 2021