TY  - BOOK
AU  - Werner,Hans
TI  - The constructed Mennonite: history, memory, and the Second World War 
SN  - 9780887557415
AV  - BX8143.W37 W37 2013eb
U1  - 289.7092 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Winnipeg, Manitoba
PB  - University of Manitoba Press
KW  - Werner, John,
KW  - Mennonites
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Siberia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Manitoba
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Germany
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Influence
KW  - Ex-prisoners of war
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Storytellers
KW  - Autobiographical memory
KW  - Russie
KW  - Sibérie
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Ex-prisonniers de guerre
KW  - Conteurs
KW  - Mémoire épisodique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Mennonite
KW  - fast
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) 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; Access restricted to LAC onsite clients
N2  - 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
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