Abstract: At the end of the 1940s, a viable Estonian exile community was formed in Sweden; it mainly consisted of the World War II refugees. During the first two decades, an amateur film maker, Harald Perten, recorded the most important events of the Estonian Swedes (i.e. Estonians living in Sweden). He produced some longer silent films which chronicled life in exile. The films contain subtitles with the name of the event as well as some other data. Yet, a large part of his recordings stayed unexploited. The “raw material” belongs to the Estonian Arc...
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