Almi was a young woman of 20 when she left her parents' farm on Saaremaa to live and work in Tallinn, Estonia. After a few months, she met Aleksander, whom she married. Their daughter was born about a year after, at the beginning of the Second World War, and a son was born 18 months later. Then her mother wrote asking them to move back to Saaremaa. This trip, that normally would have taken only one day to travel from one side of Estonia to the other, took them a whole week on foot, sheltering wherever possible and occasionally getting lifts on passing army lorries or horse carts. Eighteen m.
"Almi was a young woman of 20 when she left her parents' farm on Saaremaa to live and work in Tallinn, Estonia. After a few months, she met Aleksander, whom she married. Their daughter was born about a year after, at the beginning of the Second World War, and a son was born 18 months later. Then her mother wrote asking them to move back to Saaremaa. This trip, that normally would have taken only one day to travel from one side of Estonia to the other, took them a whole week on foot, sheltering wherever possible and occasionally getting lifts on passing army lorries or horse carts. Eighteen m."@en
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