"Mwaja. Hier lag unsere Station. Das Haus wurde abgerissen u. in Lusubilo wieder aufgebaut.." ("Mwaja. Our station was located here. The building was pulled down and rebuilt again in Lusubilo."). Children are sitting on the beach. Another group of people is arriving. On the right the remains of a brick wall. A small child is kneeling in the water. In the background uprooted trees. The mission station had to be pulled down because the water level of Lake Malawi had been rising. (Missionsblatt der Brüdergemeine 99, p. 152. Herrnhut: Missionsbuchhandlung, 1935). -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.
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2 copies, colored slide no. 10592 photographic print, 11.5 x 8.5 cm. photographs
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