Schoensee Mennonite Cemetery
Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Raion, Zaporizka, Ukraine – *No GPS coordinates
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With the Russian revolution hard times began for the villagers, and a general decline followed. During the Civil War in 1919, Schönsee for several months was in the front line between the warring armies and suffered considerable damage. A number of the inhabitants were killed. During the 1930's a great number of people, mostly men, who had been prosperous were branded "kulaks" and banished to Siberia. From the village of Schönsee alone this number reached 72.
Toward the end of World War II most of the remaining Mennonite inhabitants succeeded in escaping from Russia with the retreating German armies. But the greater part of these refugees were rounded up by the Russians in Poland and forcibly returned to Russia. As far as is known, they were not taken to their former homes but to Kazakhstan, a desolate province of central Asia. Only a very few inhabitants of Schönsee reached the Western Zone of Germany, from where in due time they immigrated to Canada or South America. The final fate of the village after the departure of the Mennonite population is unknown.
Goerz, Heinrich. "Schönsee (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 6 Sep 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sch%C3%B6nsee_(Molotschna_Mennonite_Settlement,_Zaporizhia_Oblast,_Ukraine)&oldid=104785
With the Russian revolution hard times began for the villagers, and a general decline followed. During the Civil War in 1919, Schönsee for several months was in the front line between the warring armies and suffered considerable damage. A number of the inhabitants were killed. During the 1930's a great number of people, mostly men, who had been prosperous were branded "kulaks" and banished to Siberia. From the village of Schönsee alone this number reached 72.
Toward the end of World War II most of the remaining Mennonite inhabitants succeeded in escaping from Russia with the retreating German armies. But the greater part of these refugees were rounded up by the Russians in Poland and forcibly returned to Russia. As far as is known, they were not taken to their former homes but to Kazakhstan, a desolate province of central Asia. Only a very few inhabitants of Schönsee reached the Western Zone of Germany, from where in due time they immigrated to Canada or South America. The final fate of the village after the departure of the Mennonite population is unknown.
Goerz, Heinrich. "Schönsee (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 6 Sep 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Sch%C3%B6nsee_(Molotschna_Mennonite_Settlement,_Zaporizhia_Oblast,_Ukraine)&oldid=104785
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