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Chapter 3: My family fled as refugees

June 25, 2016/0 Comments/in Autobiography Stories - J. Pill, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > Chapter 3 of my Autobiography Story is concerned with my family’s refuge story – which as it turns out, is a story about how I ended up in Canada and among other things helps to explain my interest in military history. A couple of previous posts […]

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My family fled as refugees from Estonia in 1944; they were among the ones who survived the journey

September 4, 2015/1 Comment/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill

Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > I was born in Sweden in 1946, after my parents and several other members of the extended family including my grandparents on my mother’s side crossed the Baltic Sea to Sweden in the autumn of 1944. They made the trip in two separate boats. There were […]

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