Veranika – Family Recipe from Molotchna Colony
Oh! I love the results of this “recipe”. I was always very excited when my mother would make these little …
Oh! I love the results of this “recipe”. I was always very excited when my mother would make these little …
It frustrated Isaak that there was no rhyme or reason to who was considered an enemy of the State and …
Some “policies” of the Stalinist Soviets were exceptionally brutal. People everywhere in the Colony were encouraged by the State to …
When the collectivization was in full force in the early 1930s, a dark period of famine started that continued to …
At the end of the Revolution, around 1922, large groups of Mennonites left the colony for Canada and Mexico, but …
The former majesty and prosperity had disappeared from Gnadenfeld and alone on his walk home, Isaak thought about how he …
Christian found belonging amongst the Mennonites of Prussia. Although a Lutheran, the Mennonites accepted him into their fold and as …
Christian and Maria Russo’s home was in the very south-east corner of Gnadenfeld and one of the first to be …
It took thirteen years for Gnadenfeld to finally produce beyond that which they needed to survive on their own. The …
The wagon train arrived early in the fall of 1834 to the land promised to them and everyone was extremely …