Tales from the Mennonite Heritage Archives

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SUMMER REWIND: From Russia with Woe (Part 1)

SUMMER REWIND: From Russia with Woe (Part 1)10 aug15 min

Send us Fan Mail Today, we bring back 'From Russia with Woe', part one of a two part series. During Stalin’s Reign of Terror the 1930s, Jacob Petrovich Janzen was one of many Mennonites swept up into forced labour camps called Special Settlements, and then the more severe form of the camps called the Gulag. More than 80 years later, his great-grandaughter, Maria Lotsmanova, discovered parts of his story with help from the Gulag History Museum of Repressions in Moscow. Maria shares with listen...