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Gunnar Ellam

Becoming an architect despite the horrors of war

Gunnar Ellam recalls his childhood in Estonia and escape through Germany to the USA. He also speaks about his education and work as an architect.

  • 2014
  • Gunnar Ellam
  • Uve Poom
  • Umsiedlung - The resettlement of Baltic Germans
  • First Soviet Occupation of Estonia
  • German occupation
  • Estonian War of Independence
  • March bombing 1944
  • Refugees
  • Velikiye Luki
  • New York

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