What would you carry if you emigrated to another country? Twenty-three-year-old Anna Neufeld wore this locket in 1917 when her fiancé, Cornelius Tiessen, left, and brother Peter, both pictured in their Red Cross uniforms, served on medical trains during the First World War. Anna lived near present-day Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, now site of another war. Anna would marry Cornelius in 1918. Sadly, Peter died in 1919. Anna cherished the locket all her life, bringing it with her to Canada in 1925.
For more historical photos in the Mennonite Archival Image Database, see archives.mhsc.ca.
More moments from yesterday:
Ontario Women in Mission gathering
Kitchener MWC Assembly
Waldemar Janzen
Klippenstein house
Harold Cardinal
(Photo: Mennonite Archives of Ontario)
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