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Helena "Helen" Nickel

#217210 ♀

/172hl

Birth:

Born:

20 October 1934, Schoenau, Sagradovka, South Russia

1,2,3 village details

Baptism:

Baptized:

1 May 1949, Gnadental, Neuland, Paraguay

Death:

Died:

17 September 1956, Vancouver, British Columbia

1,2,4

(21 years, 10 months, 29 days)

Buried:

22 September 1956, Vancouver, British Columbia

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Facts &
events:

Immigrated:

arrived

16 February 1944, Poland

Immigrated:

S. S. Volendam; arrived

22 February 1947, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Immigrated:

arrived

20 December 1950, Chilliwack, British Columbia

Last update of Individual data:

12 July 2025

Parents:

Family #124723

Father:

Nickel, Peter

4 September 1905, Schoenau, Sagradovka, South Russia

Mother:

Hamm, Margaretha "Margaret" Helen

20 October 1904, Blumenhof, Borozenko, South Russia

#124792

Spouse:

Penner, Peter

14 August 1931, Gnadenheim, Fernheim, Paraguay

Married:

20 October 1955, Vancouver, British Columbia

Notes:

Immigration note: Departed Ukraine on 3 Oct 1943.
Immigration note: They flew from Paraguay to New York.
Burial note: Mountain View Cemetery
Note: Lena immigrated to Paraguay with her mother, a brother & a sister. 1950 to Canada. Her father was arrested in 1938. Helen died of leukemia shortly after she married.

Citations:

Principal

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[6]

Die Mennonitische Rundschau (Most issues are available online at archive.org) ( https://archive.org/details/pub_die-mennonitische-rundschau), Published in Elkhart, Indiana 1880-1908; Scottdale, Pennsylvania 1908-1923; Winnipeg, Manitoba 1923-2007 [5 Dec 1990, p24]

[6]

Mennonitische Rundschau [10 Oct 1956, p9] View p9

[1464]

Atlas der Siedlungsdoerfer der Kolonie Neuland (This source contains lists of recent Mennonite immigrants from Russia who were living in the Neuland Colony in Paraguay), 1996 [8]

[2037]

The Martin Hamm Family Tree [114]

[14]

Find a Grave, Memorial 26255493.

[470]

Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Records (These records provide information about Mennonites who immigrated from Russia to Canada between 1923-1930 and between 1947-1960. The 1923-1930 records are available online at: https://www.mharchives.ca/holdings/organizations/CMBoC_Forms/ Because of privacy concerns, the 1947-1960 records are not online but are available at archives.), Mennonite Heritage Archives. [Record number 8401]

[8035]

Schirmacher, Hermann, Wiebe, Hans-Peter, Wiebe, and Schirmacher, Thomas, MCC Auswanderungslisten nach 1945: The Mennonite Central Committee Post-World War II Refugee List, 1945-1952 (http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com/int/MCC_Mennoniten_Auswanderung_Nach_1945.pdf.), http://www.mennonitegenealogy.com [8643]

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