At the Gates of Moscow

In the autumn of 1929, more than fifteen thousand Russian-German Mennonites began to gather in the city of Moscow. They were there with on purpose: to plead with the Kremlin for permission to emigrate. That winter, many of these Mennonites endured imprisonment, interrogation, and torture. Some died. But they steadfastly persisted in their desperate prayers, in their appeals to the Soviet leadership and to the governments of the free world.

In a time when much of Russia’s history is again being revised, these are stories that must be told once more.