03866nam 2200805 450 991078620840332120231211162843.00-88755-436-910.1515/9780887554360(CKB)2670000000345372(EBL)3285994(CEL)444950(OCoLC)824644574(CaBNVSL)slc00232146(Au-PeEL)EBL4828125(CaPaEBR)ebr11368027(OCoLC)875414328(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/775991(MiAaPQ)EBC4828125(DE-B1597)664612(DE-B1597)9780887554360(MiAaPQ)EBC3285994(EXLCZ)99267000000034537220170418h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe constructed Mennonite history, memory, and the Second World War /Hans WernerManitoba, Canada :University of Manitoba Press,2013.©20131 online resource (214 pages)Includes index.0-88755-741-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1 Siberia. 1 Beginnings ; 2 Difficult Years ; 3 Ivan, Stalin's Hope ; 4 The Mist Clears __ Part 2 War. 5 War Stories ; 6 Johann: Becoming a German ; 7 The Fog of War ; 8 The 401 ; 9 The Collapse -- Part 3 Becoming Normal. 10 New Beginnings ; 11 Margarethe (Sara) Vogt (Letkeman) ; 12 The Immigrants ; 13 Memories, Stories, and History -- Appendix: Family Trees -- Glossary Notes.John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a young man in Stalinist Russia, he became Ivan and fought as a Red Army soldier in the Second World War. Captured by Germans, he was resettled in occupied Poland where he became Johann, was naturalized and drafted into Hitler's German army where he served until captured and placed in an American POW camp. He was eventually released and then immigrated to Canada where he became John. The Constructed Mennonite is a unique account of a life shaped by Stalinism, Nazism, migration, famine, and war. It investigates the tenuous spaces where individual experiences inform and become public history; it studies the ways in which memory shapes identity, and reveals how context and audience shape autobiographical narratives.Autobiographical memoryEx-prisoners of warManitobaBiographyMennonitesManitobaBiographyMennonitesRussia (Federation)SiberiaBiographyStorytellersManitobaBiographyWorld War, 1939-1945BiographyWorld War, 1939-1945InfluenceGermany.Manitoba.Mennonite.Russia.Second World War.WWI.World War II.history.immigration.Autobiographical memory.Ex-prisoners of warMennonitesMennonitesStorytellersWorld War, 1939-1945World War, 1939-1945Influence.289.7092Werner Hans1952-1533309MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786208403321The constructed Mennonite3780166UNINA