Bill Franz

Bill Franz is a writer, water management specialist, father, and grandfather, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. A first-generation Canadian descended from Mennonite immigrants who fled Eastern Europe during World War II, he is a current director at the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta. He is interested in bringing Mennonite histories to light-particularly surrounding the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. While Mutti and Papa is Franz's first book, he has made contributions to publications on...See more

Bill Franz is a writer, water management specialist, father, and grandfather, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. A first-generation Canadian descended from Mennonite immigrants who fled Eastern Europe during World War II, he is a current director at the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta. He is interested in bringing Mennonite histories to light-particularly surrounding the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. While Mutti and Papa is Franz's first book, he has made contributions to publications on topics relating to soil and water management, and his account of his 2018 trip to Ukraine and Russia, "A Journey in Time," was published by the Historical Society's newsletter, The Chronicle, in March of 2019. See less