„Zincuka. Nach dem Gottesdienst im Schulhaus (wegen Kirchreparatur)“ („Zincuka. After the church service in the school house (due to repairing of the church)“). Young people gathering next to a building with the inscription on it: “Zibi Meyer School”. To the right a group of seven young men, wearing suits and hats, standing in a circle, talking to each other. Next to the school building a group of girls, standing in a line, leaning at the house wall. Two little girls and an older one are walking beside the front wall of the school house. On the right side of the picture in the back other people sitting and a tree. 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-5-09364.
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