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Mennonitische Geschichte und Ahnenforschung
Schlagwort: Pretoria
Erinnerungen Aron Pries Pretoria
Liste der ersten Siedler, die das Dorf Pretoria gegründet haben und Schüler. Handschriftliche Notizen aus der Sammlung von Martin Neufeld, erhalten von Maria Klassen Moskau. Abgeschrieben und übersetzt, GMOL Nummern…
Handschriftliche Notizen Martin Neufeld
Handschriftliche Notizen aus der Sammlung von Martin Neufeld, erhalten von Maria Klassen. Abgeschrieben und übersetzt, GMOL Nummern hinzugefügt von Willi Janzen. Siemens.P.KHerunterladen Siemens-P.-K.-russischHerunterladen Siemens P. K. (Peter Kornelius, #707116) (geb.…
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.
Pretoria During Civil War and Famine
Many years ago, as I began collecting information on life in Russia for the Loewen family, I had the foresight to solicit input from my uncles and aunts, all of…
Photos from Pretoria (Orenburg)
Here some Photos from Pretoria (Orenburg). These Photos where taken before 1926, but some are after 1926.