The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia, 1880-1884, Fred Richard Belk, 1976

cago Press, 1931), pp. 5, 7; “The Size of the German Population in Kazakhstan and Central Asia,” Central Asian Review, Vol. X (1959), pp. 372-373; Stumpp, HB (1964), p. 21. Dr. Stumpp in his more recent look at Germans in Central Asia placed the number at 120,000 with 450 villages. Baum and Central Asian Review Notes 293 put the figure over 750,000. This apparent problem can be resolved, perhaps, by know- ing that these scholars consider the states of Central Asia to have different boundaries. Chapter 16 1. Bartsch, Unser Auszug, pp. 100-103; Schultz, “Autobiography,” p. 61. 2. Stumpp, HB (1964), p. 15. 3. DB (November 26, 1947), p. 7. 4. Janzen, “Colony,” p. 289. 5. DB (November 26, 1947), p. 7; Cornelius Krahn, “Faith of Our Fathers,’ Mennontte Weekly Review (June 3, 1948), p. 7. 6. DB (December 3, 1947), pp. 7-8. 7. Ibid. 8. DB (December 10, 1947), p. 7. 9. Ibid. 10. Krahn, ‘‘Faith of Our Fathers,’ p. 7; Alexander Rempel is the author of a series of articles appearing in Der Bote during 1947. 11. Interview with Cornelius Krahn by Fred Belk, January 16, 1973. The Ameri- can Mennonite historian, Dr. Cornelius Krahn, has enjoyed a great deal of contact through relatives and tours he has conducted in the USSR. Krahn tells of worshiping in a Russian Baptist Church in Alma Ata in 1972 with Mennonites who have applied for a license for a church, suggesting that the restrictions on Mennonite worship are being relaxed. APPENDIX A Summary of Families Participating in the Greak Trek I. First wagon train from Hahnsau to Kaplan Bek, July 3, 1880, to October 18, 1880. Ten families participated, of which the following have been identified: 1. Bartsch, Franz 5. Penner, Wilhelm 2. Froese, Franz 6. Quiring, Jonas 3. Froese, Franz J. 7. Schmidt, Heinrich 4. Horn, Peter 8. Wiebe, Heinrich II. Second wagon train from Medemtal to Kaplan Bek, August 13, 1880, to November 24, 1889. Thirteen familites participated, of which the following have been identified: _ 1, Bartsch, Hermann 7. Penner, J. K. Ned peas Hermanns 8. Penner, Cornelius W. 3.-Jantzén, Heinrich) 9. Peters, Dietrich antzen, Jo annes 10. Quiring, Cornelius 5, Klaassen, Johannes 11. Toews, Jacob 6. Klaassen, Martin 12. Wall, Cornelius III. Third wagon train from Waldeheim, Molotschna, to Tashkent, August 1, 1880, to December 2, 1880. Eighty families participated, of which the following have been identified: 11. Koop, Isaac 1. Baergen, Johann 12. Kroeker, Abraham 2. Braunen 13. Pauls 3. Dirks 14. ,Peters, Abraham 4. Duecken, Leonard 15. Unruh, Cornelius 5. Esau, Cornelius 16. Wedel, Cornelius 6. Esau, Gerhard 17. Wedel, Johann 7. Goertz, Siebert 18. Wedel, Tobias 8. Graeve, Heinrich G. 19. Wiebe, Peter 9. Jantzen, Jacob 20. Wiens, Dietrich 10. Janzen, Jacob 21. Wiens, Peter Partictpating Familtes 225 IV. Fourth wagon train from the Trakt to Tashkent, August 1881 to October 1881. Nine families