CPS Worker 002731 - Ewert, John L.

CPS Worker 002731 - Ewert, John L.

Birth year: 1920

Denomination: Mennonite Brethren

Original occupation: Student

Drafted from: Mountain Lake , Minnesota, United States

Entered CPS: 1 25, 1942

Left CPS: 1 28, 1946

CPS Units:

Notes:

Shortly after the opening of camp #123, Ewert "was called to the private office of the banker of Union Grove and told that the people of Union Grove did not like COs and did not want to see them on the streets and even suggested that the irritated citizens might resort to a neck-tie party."

 

--Taken from Steven J. Taylor, Acts of Conscience: World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009. p192.

 

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21 of the original unit members
21 of the original unit members. Front row: l-4, Sam Yoder, Pete Schmidt,* John Ewert,* Earl Gordon, Titus Martin, Eldon Morse,* Kenneth Miller, Second row: l-r, Herbert Welch, David Anderson, Walter Fast, Alvin Troyer, Ezra Miller, Moses Yoder,* Elvett Brown,* (unit leader until April 1, 1944), Back row: l-r, Harold Oswald, Ernest Pankratz, Eddie Kauffman, Erwin Buller,* Henry Kroeker, Joe Schrock, Arnold Claassen *have left unit for various reasons.
Mennonite Central Committee Archival Photo

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