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Helen Friesen collection
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Helen (Pauls) Friesen collection
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1.35 cm of textual records. -- 13 photographs.
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Helen Friesen was born Helen Pauls 27 May 1926, Chortitza Village, Chortitza Settlement, USSR to Johann Pauls and Maria Friesen. During the period of German Army occupation of certain parts of Ukraine in USSR, Helen provided informational assistance which later became part of the Dorf Bericht record for Mennonite and other predominantly German-origin villages. During the war, she, her mother, and sister fled to Germany. Helen found a Canadian family to sponsor her immigration to Canada in the 1940s, but her mother and sister stayed behind. After years of domestic service in rural Alberta settings, Helen moved to Calgary, met and married on 5 Aug 1951 Cornelius Friesen. She has one adoptive daughter, Anita Friesen. Helen has been a correspondent for a number of Canadian Mennonite newspapers, writing in English and German. She is a member of the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta.
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The fonds consists of copies of autobiographical manuscripts written by Helen Friesen, David G. Rempel, and Olga Rempel as well as historic photographs and postcards. Olga Toews Regier Rempel was one of Helen Friesen's neighbors in Russia and the daughter of Prediger (Pastor) Aron Toews.
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Gift by Helen (Pauls) Friesen, 2002-2004.
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- The material is in German and English.
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The MHSA Library also has Einer von Vielen [One of many] by Olga Rempel, a biography of her father; and The Mennonite colonies in New Russia : a study of their settlement and economic development from 1789 to 1914, the doctoral thesis of David G. Rempel completed in 1933.
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Record No. 2002.004, 2003.047, 2004,045<br><br>
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- Friesen, Helen (Subject)
- Rempel, David G. (Subject)