"Silo. Nach dem Weihnachtsgottesdienst" ("Silo. After Christmas Eve service"). A group of people are standing in a court of houses. Plants are standing next to the house on the left and the one on the right side of the picture. The men are wearing suits and hats, the women skirts, shawls and headdresses. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland). c.f. picture no. IMP-HRN-BOX-SAO-6-09560.
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