General News
The Estonian Archives in Australia officially turned 70 on the 5th of January, 2022! Along with the Council of Estonian Societies, the Archive has been operating on a volunteer basis since 1952.
Born 18/05/1940 Tallinn, EstoniaDied 3/12/2021 Young, NSW, Australia Reet was born in Tallinn in a free Estonia. Within months the situation changed when first Soviet and then German troops swept across Estonia. In September 1944 Reet’s mother with two small children, Reet, and her brother Ants, fled the advancing Soviet troops. She had a sister in Austria and the family set out to travel there. After the war Reet’s family was in a displaced persons camp and chose to migrate […]
Two volunteers from the Archive will be speaking on Day 2 of the 6th BaltHerNet conference “No Topic Conference” which will take place September 15th-16th/ 16th -17th (Australia Time) on Zoom. Maie Barrow will be presenting on “Sharing our archive with the world”; and Kristi Barrow will be discussing “Starting a social media program”. We will be sharing the session with Ave Maria Blithe from Estonian Archives in the US and Ann Tündern-Smith from the Canberra & District Historical Society.The […]
A big Thank You to everyone who donated to our fundraising drive to digitise the oral history collection. Due to your generosity we have exceeded our target and have the first lot of videos digitised. Now the work starts on describing and cataloguing the digitised tapes and making them available to all. The next lot of videos to be digitised are the interviews, in Estonian, recorded by Lembit Blauhut in 1995. They comprise 25 hours of interviews with Estonians from […]
The Big Dead Dry by Portia Stanton-Noble, published by Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. London, is a welcome addition to our collection of books by Estonian/Australian authors. Portia was born in Melbourne to Estonian parents who migrated here after WWII. She currently lives in South Australia and her book was launched at the Adelaide Estonian House in April 2021. The entertaining novel is a combination of murder mystery, drama, comedy and romance in a small country town.The book is available from […]
