Ratzlaff Family blog

Low German Mennonites began to move from the Dutch lowlands to the Vistula River delta beginning already in the mid-16th century. By the tur...

Maria Ratzlaff Penner (1898-1984; Mrs. Peter P Penner) was my dad's great aunt. She was also my step-great grandmother.  In 1981 she ga...

 The Lapidary Association. Forgotten Cemeteries of Pomerania and Kujawy, together with the Świecie Commune, invites you to a ceremony markin...

Various news sources in Poland are publishing information about the Przechówko cemetery restoration project.  These are a few examples: http...

Leonid Koehn (Кейн) was the "last" Mennonite living in Antonowka, or for that matter, probably all of Volhynia.  Leonid (equivalen...

Not all Mennonites leaving the Russian Empire in 1874 sought to migrate to North America.  A fascinating example of a Mennonite group attemp...

Zabytek.pl ( https://zabytek.pl/en/obiekty/cmentarz-ewangelicki-672258 ) gives this description of the Jeziorki cemetery in an undated repor...