„Elias Mzuku mit seiner Familie“ („Elias Mzuku with his family“). Group portrait of fifteen persons (five women, one man and seven children) in front of a hut. Three women standing behind the others who are sitting. The children are predominantly wearing short dresses, the women long dresses, headdresses and three of them blankets on their shoulders. Two women are holding two small children in their arms. The man, sitting on the left side, is wearing a suit and holding a book in his right hand. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.--Elias Mzuku, coming from Tembuland, was an Evangelist in Xentu (South Africa).
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