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A refugee Christmas

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Christmas cheer in a bleak time

maid-novdec-2016

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In 1929, the local people hosted a Christmas celebration for the Mennonite refugees in the camp in then-Hammerstein, Germany (now Czarne, Poland). A few months later, these families who had fled persecution and deprivation in Soviet Russia moved on to carve out new lives in Brazil and Paraguay.

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Photo (NP015-01-13) from the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies is available to the public in collaboration with MAID: the Mennonite Archival Image Database. Research more images from Mennonite churches and organizations at archives.mhsc.ca.

https://archives.mhsc.ca/

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Miriam Harder Rakssa November 3, 2016 - 07:31

Thank you for sharing the photo where my grandfather and Harder family passed Christmas 1929

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