Monthly Archives: March 2014

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Tallinn, Tartu, Narva and Pärnu by Soviet air forces, and 65 years from the March deportations. Kogu Me Lugu invites all people to share their stories to commemorate those tragic events.

The launch of the book “Memory and Trauma in International Relations” (Routledge, 2013) took place January 6, 2014 at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. The book is a compilation of cases compiled by Dr. Dovilė Budrytė, Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College, and Dr. Erica Resende, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Graduate Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro.

Using archival and published sources as well as historiography, the monograph discusses the ideological background of the World Lithuanian Youth Association (WLYA) and analyses various aspects of establishing the WLYA, emphasising the role of the Lithuanian World Community (LWC) and other ideological youth organisations in exile it played in the process. The book also reconstructs the evolution of the WLYA during the 1960s to 1980s.

The 10th of January, the archives of Estonian psychologist and memory researcher Endel Tulving (born 1927) arrived at the Estonian National Museum. Tulving was born in Estonia and worked for decades as a scholar in Canada, and decided his archives would be preserved at the National Museum.

Baltic Way, held on August 23 in 1989 was a small nation’s unique declaration of their intent. Two million people from the Baltic States took part in the peaceful protest that symbolised hope, being together as one family, sharing the same joys, goals, and ideas.

The Minister of Culture for the Republic of Estonia, Urve Tiidus, announced the 2013 Annual Estonian Museum Awards on January 31st at a ceremonial presentation held at the University of Tartu Museum. The honourees were chosen by selected committees of the museum advisory board to the Ministry of Culture. Ten awards were presented.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the great escape of 1944, when over 70,000 people fled Estonia from Soviet occupation. The journeys into the free world were dramatic and often tumultuous. The first stops in Sweden or Germany were considered temporary – the people hoped to return home. However, that did not happen. Those who did not remain in Sweden or Germany moved on to Australia, to North or South America, or to England. Many refugees tried living in several countries and on various continents over the next years. We are calling on people to record their families’ journeys and subsequent fates.

On September 22, 2013, a group of Philadelphia Latvians experienced an unknown event in Latvian society, which the organisers described as follows, “Latvians Abroad Museum (LaPa) meets American TV programme ‘Antiques Roadshow.”