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Elame veel! : Hans Alver juuniori päevik Siberi küüditamisajast 1941–1949 Print Books Price: $  Availability: Inquire 

Elame veel! : Hans Alver juuniori paevik Siberi kuuditamisajast 1941–1949  We're Still Alive!: Hans Alver Junior's Diary from the Deportation to Siberia 1941–1949 

Elame veel! : Hans Alver juuniori päevik Siberi küüditamisajast 1941–1949 
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    Author(s)
    Liivik, Olev
    City
    Tallinn 
    Country
    Estonia 
    Language
    Estonian 
    ISBN
    9789916430354 
    Date of Publication
    2025 
    Publisher
    Cover Type
    Hard cover 
    Pages
    251 
    Subject
    Biography / Memoirs
    Subject
    History, 20th-21st Centuries
    Subject
    Politics
     
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    We're Still Alive!: Hans Alver Junior's Diary from the Deportation to Siberia 1941–1949 During the June deportations of 1941, approximately 10,000 Estonians were deported to Russia for forced labor and prison camps. Among those deported was the Alver family from Haapsalu, whose “guilt” lay in the dedication of the head of the family, Hans Alver, to serving the Republic of Estonia – he had been the mayor of Haapsalu, worked as a doctor, fought in the War of Independence, and belonged to the Defence League and several other organizations through which he promoted the life of his hometown and the whole of Estonia. Hans Alver was arrested and sent to a prison camp, where he was executed in 1942. His wife and two children were deported to Kirov Oblast for forced labor. The diary of the mayor's son, Hans Alver Jr., supplemented by his own drawings and family photographs, is a rare historical document. Only a few such diary entries have survived. The diary reflects the deportation of 1941, the difficult everyday life of those deported from Estonia amidst the misery of Russia, the shocks and suffering that befell the family, as well as brighter moments and events that took place in the Kirov region, Kurgan in Western Siberia, and Northern Kazakhstan.