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This video focuses on an address by Dr. Marlene Epp on the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the post World War II Mennonite immigration to Canada at the Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach, Manitoba in the summer of 1998. Based on her research project on fate of women with men largely as a result of the infamous Stalin purges during the years 1937 and 1938 and the conscription into either the German or Soviet Union armies. In the words of one reviewer, Otto Klassen "has skillfully woven into the texture of Ms. Epp's report, footage from his extensive film library depicting women in the Great Trek managing teams of horses and repairing vehicles while at the same time nursing their children, cooking for their families, bedding down the infirm and, most heart breaking of all, burying the dead along the endless trek."

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