Anna Letkeman born 1936 in Swift Colony, Mexico interview by Astrid Koop My parents Ben and Agnes Sawatzky Schmidt were both born in Saskatchewan; my mother in 1906 and my father in 1903. Their parents, in turn, had been born in Russia. I was born in the Swift Colony of Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, one of nine […]
The First Mennonites Living In Essex County
The following text was taken from the book: The Leamington United Mennonite Church with permission from Henry Driedger, son of the author N.N. Driedger, author of the book. Thanks go to Conrad Grebel College Archives for providing us with the pictures. Part 1 Toward the evening of July 17, 1924, at Quebec city, about 1000 […]
Story Of Nicholas Hamm
Nicholas Hamm: born 1914 in New York, Russia My parents were Peter Abram Hamm, born in Alexandrovsk, on the Dnieper River and Margaretha Unger, daughter of Peter H. Unger, born in Einlage, Chortitza Colony, Russia. My first memory is of WWI, 1914-1918, when the German occupational forces were billeted in Mennonite homes in our village. […]
