{"id":2371,"date":"2024-09-18T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/a-refugees-story\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T11:50:15","slug":"a-refugees-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/a-refugees-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Refugee&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2371\" class=\"elementor elementor-2371 elementor-1875\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce806fe e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ce806fe\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-afa89d2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"afa89d2\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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elementor-element-5f8364d9 e-transform elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f8364d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_transform_flipX_effect&quot;:&quot;transform&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1><b>En flyktings ber\u00e4ttelse<\/b><\/h1><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I sina memoarer fr\u00e5n 2009, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journey to Freedom<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, f\u00f6rklarar Valda Zvanitajs varf\u00f6r hon gick ombord <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarabande <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1949 f\u00f6r att ta sig till Kanada. Majoriteten av de baltiska flyktingarna i Sverige hade flytt undan den r\u00f6da armens framfart under sommaren och h\u00f6sten 1944, men Valda l\u00e4mnade inte f\u00f6rr\u00e4n 5 mars 1945, d\u00e5 hon flydde tillsammans med sina tv\u00e5 unga s\u00f6ner ombord en av de sista b\u00e5tarna fr\u00e5n Ventspils, Lettland.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valda Zvanitajs erfarenhet fr\u00e5n Sverige delades av m\u00e5nga andra baltiska flyktingar. Hon skriver:<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-432f1a6d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"432f1a6d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a65da74 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a65da74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cD\u00e5 vi bodde i Sverige, s\u00e5 n\u00e4ra ryssarna, k\u00e4nde vi ofta deras o\u00f6nskade n\u00e4rvaro. I Stockholm, mitt p\u00e5 ljusa dagen, f\u00f6rsvann tv\u00e5 estniska barn fr\u00e5n en gata. Tv\u00e5 veckor senare kunde de h\u00f6ras p\u00e5 radion i Tallinn, d\u00e4r de efterfr\u00e5gade att deras f\u00f6r\u00e4ldrar skulle \u00e5terv\u00e4nda hem till dem.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En dag fick Vilis* bes\u00f6k fr\u00e5n en man ikl\u00e4dd svensk polisuniform. Han hade en ordentlig anteckningsbok med en namnlista, alla lettiska.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u00c4r du Eduard Zvanitajs?\u201d fr\u00e5gade mannen.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cH\u00e4r \u00e4r mitt pass,\u201d svarade Vilis, och visade polisen sitt svenska pass d\u00e4r hans namn var nedskrivet som Vilis. Han hade faktiskt tv\u00e5 namn, Eduard och Vilis, men i hela sitt liv hade han anv\u00e4nt Vilis som f\u00f6rnamn.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Polismannen fortsatte att fr\u00e5ga om han inte var den Eduard som n\u00e4mndes i anteckningsboken, \u00e4ven f\u00f6delsedatumet \u00f6verensst\u00e4mde. Vilis visade honom \u00e4n en g\u00e5ng sitt pass. Polismannen fr\u00e5gade d\u00e5 om han hade en bror eller kusin vid namn Eduard. Det var tydligt att han var v\u00e4ldigt intresserad av att hitta Eduard. Vilis fortsatte h\u00e4vda att, precis som passet visade, var han inte den personen som efterfr\u00e5gades, och till slut l\u00e4mnade fr\u00e4mlingen.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hela h\u00e4ndelsen tycktes Vilis misst\u00e4nksam, och han gick till den lokala polisstationen f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rst\u00e5 vad de ville honom. Polism\u00e4nnen p\u00e5 stationen var helt ovetandes om att n\u00e5gon fr\u00e5n dem hade fr\u00e5gat ut honom, och s\u00e5 vitt de visste hade inte n\u00e5gon annan svensk polisofficer fr\u00e5n en annan polisstation varit d\u00e4r heller. Fr\u00e5gan v\u00e4cktes d\u00e5 huruvida det var en ryss, eller svensk som arbetade f\u00f6r ryssarna, som hade s\u00f6kt Eduard. Vi blev oroliga och b\u00f6rjade t\u00e4nka att det kanske vore b\u00e4ttre om vi kunde ta oss s\u00e5 l\u00e5ngt bort som m\u00f6jligt fr\u00e5n denna fientliga granne. Dock var utvandring till USA eller Kanada vid denna tid fortfarande sv\u00e5rt och v\u00e4ldigt dyrt.<\/span><\/em><\/p><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andra letter hade dock \u00e4ven haft samma tankar som vi. Flera f\u00f6retagsamma m\u00e4n gick ihop, k\u00f6pte ett skepp och planerade en olaglig resa \u00f6ver havet, med hoppet att n\u00e4r flyktingskeppet v\u00e4l n\u00e5dde Nordamerika skulle det inte skickas tillbaka, utan de skulle kunna stanna d\u00e4r och b\u00f6rja om sina liv p\u00e5 nytt.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f4daac e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1f4daac\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b50e08 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b50e08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Vilis var Valda Zvanitajs andra make. Hennes f\u00f6rsta, Antons Nadolskis, togs fast av sovjetiska myndigheter n\u00e4r han f\u00f6rs\u00f6kte hj\u00e4lpa letter att fly och d\u00f6mdes till tio \u00e5r i f\u00e4ngelse i Sibirien. Han \u00f6verlevde men familjen s\u00e5g honom aldrig igen. Vilis f\u00f6rsta fru och styvdotter skickades ocks\u00e5 till Sibirien. Det \u00e4r inte k\u00e4nt om de \u00f6verlevde.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freewinds.vabamu.ee\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}