The Book of Sorrows, Viktor Petkau, 1999

[The Book of Sorrows, Viktor Petkau, 1999. Книга представляет собой список арестованных и казненных меннонитов из Павлодарского региона Казахстана во время Великой чистки 1937-1938 гг. Исторический документ, отражающий репр] 1 Repressed Mennonites from the Pavlodar Region of Kazakhstan The Book of Sorrows Execution lists. Issue 1. Pavlodar. 1999. 228 p. Source: Unterdrückte Mennoniten aus der Region Pawlodar (Kasachstan) https://neu.chortitza.org/2025/03/unterdrueckte-mennoniten- aus-der-region-pawlodar-kasachstan/ Viktor Petkau (6 March 2025); edited by Richard D. Thiessen The Pavlodar Mennonite Settlement, located in north-east Kazakhstan (see https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Pavlodar_Mennonite_Settlement_(Pavlodar_Provi nce,_Kazakhstan)) was established in 1906 by Mennonites from vari…

[The Book of Sorrows, Viktor Petkau, 1999. Книга представляет собой список арестованных и казненных меннонитов из Павлодарского региона Казахстана во время Великой чистки 1937-1938 гг. Исторический документ, отражающий репр] 2 thousands were arrested; many were executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia and Central Asia. This ethnic repression dismantled the social fabric of German-Soviet life and spread fear throughout their communities. The purge marked a turning point in the fate of Mennonites and other German-speaking people in the USSR, transforming them from an accepted cultural minority into a persecuted and displaced population. Their suffering exemplifies how Stalin’s regime fused paranoia, nationalism, and political terror, destroying entire communities based on ethnic identity…