Over the past few years Mennonite Heritage Archives (MHA) has contributed photos and stories for Die Mennonitische Post’s feature “Ein Bild aus Unserer Geschichte” which translates to “A Photo from Our History.” The feature highlights photographs from MHA’s archival collection which are accessible on the Mennonite Archival Information Database (MAID). In addition to MAID, this web page features the photos and stories MHA has contributed to “A Photo from Our History.”
In Die Mennonitische Post the captions are provided in German. Here we provide the stories in English.
March 20, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 20 | When Mennonites migrated to hotter southern climates, there was a lot to learn. For generations previous, Mennonites had lived in more northern climates – lands that experienced warm but not hot summers, normally with enough rain, and winters with snow. When they Read More
March 6, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 19 | This photo depicts students and their teacher in front of the school house in the Santa Clara Colony, Mexico sometime in the 1920s. Changes to schooling requirements in Canada was the main reason for Mennonite migration south during this time period. Mennonites Read More
February 21, 2020 Volume 32 Issue 18 | Around 1922, Mexico extended to Sommerfelder migrants in their Privelgium some of the same offers made to Mennonite migrants to Paraguay: the protection of the law “for all time” and “complete liberty to leave this republic when it is deemed convenient.” This Read More
February 7, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 17 | This four-story home and its surrounding outbuildings, pictured in 1923, was the residence of D.S. Russek, a wealthy banker in Chihuahua, Mexico. His firm, David S. Russek and Company was a significant player in the efforts to sell land to Mennonites from Read More
January 17, 2020 Volume 43 Issue 16 | Many of the villages originally created in southern Manitoba by Mennonite settlers have long since disappeared. Some of them were dealt a death knell when large numbers of Mennonites migrated south. The villages were modelled on the Strassendorf system imported from Russia Read More