Helmut Siitam Analysis
HELMUT AND ASTRID SIITAM foot note 36
Like many other 20 year old men in 1944, Helmut Siitam was a soldier. On the eve of D Day, June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, the young private in the Estonian Army was enjoying a three week furlough at his parents' home in the Baltic republic's capital of Tallin. During his brief respite from the horrors of war, Helmut enjoyed the time with his family. He said goodbye to his parents for the last time and bid farewell to Alfred his younger brother, that he would not see again for 46 years later, when in June 1990, Alfred and his family visited the Siithams in Meaford.
At the end of the war, Helmut made his way to the western sector and joined the French …show more content…
He immigrated to Canada in March 1951. He worked on a farm in the Kentville Valley in Nova Scotia, helping with the chores of a dairy herd and a few chickens. He then took a train to Ontario, spending a few days in Montreal looking around. From there he took a night train to Sudbury. He and a friend lined up with others wanting a job in the nickel mines. The men were asked to come back in the afternoon and all the men left. But Helmet, and his Estonian friend and a Canadian all stayed back, and the three were given jobs in the nickel …show more content…
Vincent Euphrasia Elementary School.
FINDING THE REST OF THE FAMILY
In 1957 Helmut was working in the mines in Sudbury and sent an Easter card to his old family's address. They were no longer living there because all of the family's possessions had been confiscated by the State when they were sent to Siberia. Somehow the card found its way to the family's new address, and after more than 12 years they knew that Helmut was alive.
In 1944, the police came in the night, as they always do, and told the family they were being sent to Siberia. They only had two hours to collect whatever they could carry before they were to leave. Alfred was away at school when the secret police came to take his family away, so he escaped being sent to Siberia, but he remained a hunted man until after the death of Stalin in 1953, when his family was granted amnesty and returned to the city of Tallinn. Their father was freed from the labour camp in 1955 and the rest of the family, the mother, a brother Ilmar and two sisters, Agnes and Asta, returned a year
Like many other 20 year old men in 1944, Helmut Siitam was a soldier. On the eve of D Day, June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, the young private in the Estonian Army was enjoying a three week furlough at his parents' home in the Baltic republic's capital of Tallin. During his brief respite from the horrors of war, Helmut enjoyed the time with his family. He said goodbye to his parents for the last time and bid farewell to Alfred his younger brother, that he would not see again for 46 years later, when in June 1990, Alfred and his family visited the Siithams in Meaford.
At the end of the war, Helmut made his way to the western sector and joined the French …show more content…
He immigrated to Canada in March 1951. He worked on a farm in the Kentville Valley in Nova Scotia, helping with the chores of a dairy herd and a few chickens. He then took a train to Ontario, spending a few days in Montreal looking around. From there he took a night train to Sudbury. He and a friend lined up with others wanting a job in the nickel mines. The men were asked to come back in the afternoon and all the men left. But Helmet, and his Estonian friend and a Canadian all stayed back, and the three were given jobs in the nickel …show more content…
Vincent Euphrasia Elementary School.
FINDING THE REST OF THE FAMILY
In 1957 Helmut was working in the mines in Sudbury and sent an Easter card to his old family's address. They were no longer living there because all of the family's possessions had been confiscated by the State when they were sent to Siberia. Somehow the card found its way to the family's new address, and after more than 12 years they knew that Helmut was alive.
In 1944, the police came in the night, as they always do, and told the family they were being sent to Siberia. They only had two hours to collect whatever they could carry before they were to leave. Alfred was away at school when the secret police came to take his family away, so he escaped being sent to Siberia, but he remained a hunted man until after the death of Stalin in 1953, when his family was granted amnesty and returned to the city of Tallinn. Their father was freed from the labour camp in 1955 and the rest of the family, the mother, a brother Ilmar and two sisters, Agnes and Asta, returned a year