LEADER 03866nam 2200805 450 001 9910822775803321 005 20231211162843.0 010 $a0-88755-436-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780887554360 035 $a(CKB)2670000000345372 035 $a(EBL)3285994 035 $a(CEL)444950 035 $a(OCoLC)824644574 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00232146 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4828125 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11368027 035 $a(OCoLC)875414328 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/775991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4828125 035 $a(DE-B1597)664612 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780887554360 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3285994 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000345372 100 $a20170418h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe constructed Mennonite $ehistory, memory, and the Second World War /$fHans Werner 210 1$aManitoba, Canada :$cUniversity of Manitoba Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (214 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-88755-741-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aJohn 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. 606 $aAutobiographical memory 606 $aEx-prisoners of war$zManitoba$vBiography 606 $aMennonites$zManitoba$vBiography 606 $aMennonites$zRussia (Federation)$zSiberia$vBiography 606 $aStorytellers$zManitoba$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xInfluence 610 $aGermany. 610 $aManitoba. 610 $aMennonite. 610 $aRussia. 610 $aSecond World War. 610 $aWWI. 610 $aWorld War II. 610 $ahistory. 610 $aimmigration. 615 0$aAutobiographical memory. 615 0$aEx-prisoners of war 615 0$aMennonites 615 0$aMennonites 615 0$aStorytellers 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xInfluence. 676 $a289.7092 700 $aWerner$b Hans$f1952-$01686117 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822775803321 996 $aThe constructed Mennonite$94058763 997 $aUNINA