Why did I write a serial about a deported woman ?
I am fascinated by the ways some people have been able to survive hardships without losing their minds
A life as deported from Estonia to Siberia #4
In this post I will include the testimony of Elfriide Kulgver. Elfriide Kulgver was born in Estonia (1909 – 1992). Like so many other people in the Baltic countries she and her family was deported by the Soviets on the 14 of June 1941 without any notice. (Post number one and post number two and post number three are linked here). In […]
A life as deported from Estonia to Siberia #3
I regret that I went to work to get bread and soup and let Jyri be in the ward of others'. He still might have died, but I could have been with him his last days. This is one of the horrible things of life that you voluntarily do things that you later regret without being able to change anything
A life as deported from Estonia to Siberia #2
How do you manage life when your husband has disappeared and your two toddlers have died of malnutrition and infections?
A life as deported from Estonia to Siberia # 1
This is the first post of a serial of five posts based on Elfriide’s life story as deported from Estonia to Siberia and back to Estonia. Number Two, Three, Four and the post scriptum. We have friends with a dramatic background in their ancestry story. Our friend Kristjan comes from Sweden and his father Herbert escaped the Germans and the Russians by fleeing from Estonia […]
A Series of Vignetts: Being 15
Looking back at the age of fifteen in three generations 1938, 1966 and 2000
Day 14: Recreate a single day
Last Friday I was telling you a story while we were having coffee. My husband and I were going to take a trip in the footsteps of a boy from Funen in Denmark who would later become a very famous Danish-American called “The Builder of the West”. He was born in 1864 and died in 1933 and his name was Hans […]
Day 13: Compose a series of vignettes
Today I ran a so-called Cooper Test. I do that once every month. After five minutes of warm-up: The voice tells me on my premium Endomondo app. “Run your fastest in twelve minutes”! I really don’t like it, but I chose to do it anyway just to improve my running speed and endurance. Today I told my self to decide to like it. […]
Day 10: Update your readers over a cup of coffee
I planned to write this post at our newly renovated library where a nice café is at the front. I went to look for a book and had a look into the café. I had never been there and the place was full of elderly women having chats and a coffee! I would feel more relaxed at home with coffee ad […]
Day 7: Hook ’em with a quote
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer a German priest and resistant during Hitler’s regime. He could have stayed in U.S.A. during the war where he was teaching, but he felt he had to go back and be among those who fought against Hitler. The last two years before the war ended he was in prison and in 9 of April 1945 he was hanged 39 years old […]
From one Heart to Another 