Elina Penner’s debut novel, Nachtbeeren (Nightberries), provides insight into the post-Cold War Russian Mennonite community in Germany.
Hans von Niessen, a resettlement supervisor who organized the migration of more than 100,000 Mennonite Russian Germans out of the Soviet Union, died Oct. 20 in Neuwied, Germany. He was 94.
Mennonites and Catholics gathered Nov. 8 to remember early Anabaptist leader Michael Sattler in the German church where he served as a Benedictine monk.