Werner Toews is a retired police officer and a former vice president of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society and represented the MMHS to Friends of the Canadian Human Rights Museum. In 2003 he organized the Sketches from Siberia art exhibit that showcased the paintings of Jacob Sudermann, and in 2012, presented a paper on the story of Jacob Sudermann at the University of Winnipeg Mennonite Studies seminar: Mennonites and Human Rights. He has published articles in several publications on Russian Mennonite themes and received the Germans from Russia Heritage Society 2017 Joseph S. Height literary award for his article on the missing records of the first Mennonite settlement in Russia. Werner Toews lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sketches from Siberia is his first book....