Education in Pretoria

Public school was begun in 1904, shortly after the village of Pretoria was formed; the Abraham J. Loewen family had arrived two years earlier. The language of instruction was German, with Russian as the second language, and the children started school at age 7 or 8. Jacob Loewen began school in the fall of 1910. In his memoirs, he describes his early education experiences at some length, and for the most part, this account is based on his memoirs.

Life in Pretoria Before The Turmoil

Pretoria, Village #14 in the Orenburg settlement, was founded in 1903. Owing to the Mennonites’ sympathies with the Afrikaans-speaking Boers, as opposed to ‘the English’, of South Africa, Pretoria was named after the principal city of the Boers. It consisted of a wide dirt road separating two rows of houses, with approximately 15—17 homes on either side of the street. A public school stood on the north side of the street, in the middle of the village, and a high school stood (die Zentralschule) at the end of the street, on the south side.

Petersdorf

Both the Prussian census of 1772 and the diary of Aeltester Gerhard Wiebe refer to Baumgart, Prussia, as the residence for Elias Peters. Son, Daniel Peters, and Elisabeth Brandt had only one child, according to records – Daniel Daniel Peters (1794 – 1879). He came to Russia in 1806 with his maternal grand-parents, Jakob J. and Susanna Brandt, although this fact is contradicted in some documents.

Daten aus Dokumenten vom Archiv Tomsk

Svistunovskii Bezirk, Dobrovolskaya volost, Barnaulsky uyezd (später Dolino-Chernavka, jetzt Dolinka, Blagoveshchensky Bezirk, Altai Gebiet. Dolinka, Kreis Blagoweschtschenski, Altai-Gebiet), die aus den Provinzen Jekaterinoslaw, Taurien und Ufa zugewandert sind. Dokumenten aus dem Staatsarchiv der Region Tomsk von Jakob Razlaf

OS MENONITAS CHEGAM EM CURITIBA

Ainda no século 16, alguns menonitas do Flandres, por causa de seus princípios religiosos, foram perseguidos e condenados à morte pela Inquisição espanhola que se estabeleceu naquela região. Por causa disso, os menonitas fogem da Holanda e refugiam-se na Prússia, o que hoje é a Polônia. [...]. No final do século 18, a Prússia vivia a apreensão com a agitação política na França às portas da Revolução Francesa de 1789. Com o controle governamental da Prússia, os colonos menonitas foram impedidos de possuir novas áreas e seus descendentes não tinham mais terras cultiváveis.

Fritz van Bergen

In den vergangenen Tagen habe ich mich mit Material aus dem Archiv von Fritz van Bergen befasst und werde einige der Daten online stellen. Dieses Material habe ich Ende der 90 Jahre von Hermann Thiessen erworben, ohne überhaupt etwas zu ahnen. Es ist mir wichtig Stellung zu nehmen und klarzustellen mit wem wir es hier zu tun haben und welche Motivation hinter seiner Arbeit stand. Der Nutzer dieser Quellen muss wissen unter welcher Gesinnung die Daten zusammengetragen wurde

Martin Loewen: A Kulak at the Wrong Time and Place

Bruder, mein Großvater Abraham J. Loewen. Im Alter von 24 Jahren heiratete Martin Susanna Klassen in Schöndorf, und vier Jahre später, im Jahr 1898, zogen sie in Susannas Heimatdorf Gnadental, wo sie sich niederließen und eine Landwirtschaft betrieben. Sie hatten zu dieser Zeit zwei Kinder, Jacob und Anna. Susanna Klassen war die Schwester von Jacob J. Klassen, dem örtlichen Pfarrer und Anführer der Gruppe, die 1923 nach Blumenort, Manitoba, auswanderte.
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