“Remember us as we remember you: Letters from the Gulag,” a selection from Ruth Derksen-Siemens’ work-in-progress
Writing through the Flowers from Stalin’s Gulag (1930-38) is featured in the spring 2005 issue of Geist Magazine.
The core of the book will be the ‘Bargen collection,’ letters sent from the Gulag to the home of Franz and Liese (Regehr) Bargen in Carlyle, Saskatchewan.
MHSBC has been involved in the Bargen project. Geist is available at our Centre and at local bookstores.
Website: www.geist.com

Rhubarb, a magazine of Canadian Mennonite art and writing, has published a special issue of works from BC writers and artists entitled:
Words From the West Coast. Lower Mainland contributors include
Elsie K. Neufeld, Walter Neufeld, Connie Braun, Barbara Nickel, Robert Martens, Patrick Friesen,
Andreas Schroeder, Roxanne Willems-Snopek, Larry Nightingale, Lora Sawatzky, and Hilda Goertzen.
Copies are $7 and are available at the archive office, or at Chapters.

Roots and Branches is a publication of the Mennonite Historical Society of B.C. and is mailed three times per year to those who donate $25.00 or more per year. All donations will be receipted for tax purposes. Your contributions are needed to further  this work!

Directors: Ben Braun, David Giesbrecht, Ed Hildebrand, John Konrad, Peter Neudorf, Henry Neufeld, Helen Rose Pauls, Louise Bergen Price, Lora Sawatsky, Ben Stobbe, Richard Thiessen & John B. Toews.

Editor: Louise Bergen Price.
Contributing editors: Lora Sawatsky, & Helen Rose Pauls

Archivist: Hugo Friesen

Staff: Mary Ann Quiring