Sample collection on women migrants at the Estonian National Museum below
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Collection: Austraalia eeslased: Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sidney | Estonians in Australia: Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sidney (Australia: 1945–)
Description: Interviews with Estonian diaspora community in Australia. Most of them escaped from Estonia during the Second World War. There are similar interviews with members of the Estonian diaspora in the United States, Canada, Sweden and South-Africa.
Archive address: Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Muuseumi tee 2, 60532 Tartu, Estonia
Reference number: ERM EAp 876 EA 270:1/10-356, recordings ERM Fn 291
Links: The catalogue is available from the Estonian National Museum, and the collection is here.
Publications: Terje Hallik, Kristi Kukk, Janet Laidla and Riina Reinvelt (eds.), Eestlaste põgenemine Läände Teise maailmasõja ajal. Artiklid ja elulood [The Estonian Flight to the West during the Second World War] (Tartu: 2009); Kaja Kumer-Haukanõmm, Teisest maailmasõjast tingitud Balti pagulaste problemaatika aastatel 1945–1952 Eesti pagulaste näitel [The Fate of Baltic Refugees and Displaced Persons in 1945–1952: the Example of Estonian Refugees and Displaced Persons] (Tartu: 2012). Both contain English summaries.
Contributor: Janet Laidla
