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Mennonite Heritage Centre Archives & Gallery Laser, Daniel, 1895-1965 Fonds
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Artur Laser fonds

  • CA MHCA Volume 5429
  • Fonds
  • 1992-2007, predominant 1992

This fonds consists of the memoirs of Artur Laser, a German Baptist Christian, who moved into a Mennonite community as a child, lived and went to school in Tiegerweide and Rueckenau, Molotschna, was commandeered to work in a Russian concentration camp in 1940, and who continued to meet and live among German-speaking Baptists and Mennonites, as religious life began to re-organize after Stalin's death. The memoirs provide political background against which many experiences are described from 1933 up until he immigrated to Canada in 1973. The memoirs includes notes on each change of Soviet leadership from Stalin through to Gorbechev, and how it affected religious and social life in the Soviet Union.

Laser, Artur, 1925-