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. […]
"Stories Then" Archive
The posts below include stories told by refugees from Ukraine, 1920-1930 and 1947-1950.
Mary Wiebe Friesen Story
Mary Wiebe Friesen, born 1913 in the Terek Settlement My family and I lived in the Terek Settlement of Russia, established in 1901, which covered 24,800 acres. My parents had a mill; I was one of eight siblings, born in 1913. In 1918, when I was five, we were driven out of the area; I, […]
Story of Cornelius Driedger
Cornelius Driedger born 1921 in Tiege, Ukraine My parents were Abram Nicholai Driedger born in Schönfeld in 1890 and Margaret Friesen born in Schönfeld in 1895. I was three years old when we came to Canada. We went to Newton Siding, west of Winnipeg, Manitoba where we had a 2,000 acre farm on which we […]
