Telling the Mennonite story in Ukraine [Exhibition: "Mennonites in Tsarist Russia & the Soviet Union" at the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum]

Seventy five years after his departure from the Soviet Union, William Harder would be astonished to see his granddaughter in Ukraine on the news trying to explain what a Mennonite is.

He would be in horror that a granddaughter would voluntarily return to a country that caused him so much grief, and that present-day Ukrainians would not know what a Mennonite is. I am that granddaughter.

Thanks to the exhibition, "Mennonites in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union" at the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum, Mennonites are again invading the consciousness of Ukraine.

The exhibition is the result of the phenomenal rebirth that Russian Mennonite history has experienced …