Along the road to freedom : Mennonite women of courage and faith
2017
Book
"Along the Road to Freedom: Mennonite women of courage and faith includes 26 full page story painting reproductions honouring women who brought, or attempted to bring, their children out of the former Soviet Union to peace and freedom in Canada. Most left during the chaotic aftermath that followed the Russian Revolution and as refugees during World War 2. Many left without husbands who had been killed or disappeared into Stalin's gulag. The paintings and following stories from the families of the women in the paintings recall the lives of often otherwise anonymous women whose roads to freedom involved much suffering, despair and loss. Yet the legacy of most of these women is one of thankfulness, even forgiveness. This book comes out of the Along the Road to Freedom exhibition which is touring Canada and the US. It was inspired by four now seniors who were child refugees in the 1940s. Their desire was to spark an exhibition and book which would honour their mothers and other women like them who led children to freedom in Canada out of the former Soviet Union."-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781987986020
Description: 132 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm
Other Title:
- a MHC Gallery Project
- Mennonite women of courage and faith
Contents:
- Preface / Ray Dirks, Along the Road to Freedom artist
- foreword / Marlene Epp, Professor of History and Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel University
- remarks / Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, the Honorable Janice C. Filmon
- Along the Road to Freedom committee / Nettie Dueck, Hans Funk, Wanda Andres, Henry Bergen
- my journey / Ray Dirks
- setting, timeline, and map
- paintings
- Judith Dyck Epp
- Anna Dick Bergmann
- Maria Friesen Neufeld
- Maria Martens Pauls
- Katja Goertz Goerz
- Katharina Loewen Epp, Katharina Epp Kroeger, Katharina Kroeger Neufeld
- Mennonite Central Committee
- Anna Goosen Giesbrecht
- Susanne Loewen Bergen
- Helena Niebuhr Loewen (1)
- Helena Niebuhr Loewen (2)
- Ilse Funnk
- Maria Klassen Funk
- Agatha Harms Reimer
- Anna Wiebe Loewen Thielmann
- Anna Janzen Koop
- Katarina Klassen Dyck, Anna Dyck Friesen
- Katharina Dirks Peters
- Katarina Dyck Thiessen
- Margaret Bergman Dyck
- Maria Redekop Wall
- Susanna Krause Friesen Hecht
- Susanne Falk Unger
- Margarita Pankratz Masyuk/FOMCU
- Kingdom Ventures/Mennonite Benevolent Society
- Stories
- Process
- Unveilings and tour
- Credits
- Additional reading
- MHC Gallery.
Control Number: 2664167
Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : CMU Press, [2017]Subjects:
- Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
- Mennonite women -- Canada -- Biography.
- Mennonite women -- Canada -- Portraits.
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