Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada
by Arthur Kroeger
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Author: Arthur KroegerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-15
ISBN: 0888644736
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
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Book Review: Mennonite History
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent book about a personal experience of immigration from Russia to Canada. In addition, a lot of general information of Mennonite settlements in Russia, experience during the Russian revolution, and immigrations.
The author downplays his own evolution from being born in Russia, extreme poverty in Alberta, and how he managed to obtain an education and many considerable achievements and contributions.
Summary of Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada
In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. After living for 120 years in the comfortable surroundings of a Russian Mennonite community, the Kroeger family experienced war, revolution, a typhus epidemic, and hyper-inflation in quick succession. In 1926, they left their homeland to settle in an arid region of Western Canada. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.Ukraine Books
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