In April, sad news arrived from Germany. On April 21, 2020, Dr. Vincas Bartusevičius, a long-time friend of the National Library of Lithuania, passed away.
How many floors does Tartu College have? What was the first party that took place in Tartu College Hall in 1970? How many people have helped to organise VEMU collections in the past 10 years? These are some examples of questions in the online quiz series that VEMU is organizing in honour of Tartu College’s 50th Anniversary.
The massive spread of COVID-19 has changed all of our everyday lives and activities. Many of us have been forced to stay away from our normal workspaces to isolate ourselves at home and work remotely. Events have been cancelled or postponed. Opportunities to move about have become limited, if not impossible.
On April 8, VEMU organised together with the Finnish Studies Programme at the University of Toronto and the Swedish Womens Educational Association International Toronto, an online lecture about the Swedish speaking minority in Estonia.
We present you the Spring edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter. In these pages you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.
From the cover inwards, the March 2020 issue of the Canberra Historical Journal features Ann Tündern-Smith’s article about 60 Baltic women who arrived in the then small capital city of Australia in December 1947.