The Story of Johann Bartsch

“Quite some time ago, it may have been around 1931, a father takes his two young sons to the cemetery to tend to the family graves. There are a number of graves he looks after, First he will tidy the ones of his own father and of his mother, next he will turn to those of his brothers David and Abram, and finally he will tend to the resting place of his sweet, sweet Lena…..” This 50 page booklet is finally back in print and follows the story of Johann Bartsch who was instrumental in the Mennonites leaving their homeland of Prussia to settle in South Russia (Modern day Ukraine) at the invitation of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia in the 1770s.