Peter and Elfrieda Dyck portray refugees’ trek in 3 segments on this video. Berlin Exodus (60 min), shot in a church in Nebraska, is a one-hour telling by Peter Dyck of the miraculous escape out of the Russian sector in Berlin. Gott Kann, (30 min.) follows the first group of Mennonite refugees out of Berlin on the first transport, the Volendam, and to Paraguay. New Beginnings, (30 min.) shows the three subsequent transports to South America, including the Prussian Mennonite landing in Uruguay, and the hard pioneer beginnings in the new land.
Menno’s Reins – A Dramatized History of the Mennonites of Manitoba: (2008) (60 min.)
This film includes two parts of dramatized monologues based on Mennonite history from 1525-2008. Part one explains early history of the Anabaptist movement with a spotlight on ‘John’ Menno Simons (played by John Friesen), who is a farmer moving from Prussia to Russia. Part two entails a story of a teacher in Southern Manitoba, and highlights migration to North America/Western Canada.