©Mennonite Heritage Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba. (Last
updated July 18, 2006)
Women of
courage: stories of sadness
& stories of survival (part of the Otto Klassen
fonds)
Retrieval numbers: Videocassettes nos. 261-262
Title: Women of courage: stories of sadness
& stories of survival
Dates: 1999
Extent: 2 video cassettes : 48 min.
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This video focuses on an address by Dr. Marlene Epp
on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the post World
War II Mennonite immigration to Canada at the Mennonite Heritage
Village, Steinbach, Manitoba in the summer of 1998. Based on her
research project on fate of women with men largely as a result of the
infamous Stalin purges during the years 1937 and 1938 and the
conscription into either the German or Soviet Union armies. In the
words of one reviewer, Otto Klassen "has skillfully woven into the
texture of Ms. Epp's report, footage from his extensive film library
depicting women in the Great Trek managing teams of horses and
repairing vehicles while at the same time nursing their children,
cooking for their families, bedding down the infirm and, most heart
breaking of all, burying the dead along the endless trek."
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