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 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2657432B

  Author(s)

  Liivik, Olev

  City

  Tallinn 

  Country

  Estonia 

  Language

  Estonian 

  ISBN

  9789916430354 

  Date of Publication

  2025 

  Publisher

  Eesti Malu Instituut = Estonian Institute of Historical Memory  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  251 

  Subject

  Biography / Memoirs

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Politics

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Liivik, Olev

  Publisher

  Eesti Mälu Instituut = Estonian Institute of Historical Memory  

• Description

  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 The diary of the mayor's son, Hans Alver Jr., supplemented by his own drawings and family photographs, is a rare historical document.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.