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Treasured Memories: Tales of Buried Belongings in Wartime Estonia by Mats Burstroem (Hardcover, 2012)

In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army advance. Most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home, so many of them hid the most valuable of their belongings they were unable to carry, burying them in 'safe' places. Until Stalin's death in 1953, Estonians continued to bury objects to hide them, now for fear of deportation to Siberia. In Hoarding memories, the archaeologist Mats Burstroem tells the stories of some of these hoards: the ones that remain buried, the ones that vanished, and the ones that were recovered and have found a place in new contexts. Their sheer variety brings together all levels of history, from personal memories to high politics, and reflects how events on the world stage can shape the fate of individual families, even across several generations. Yet most of all, as a groundbreaking work of contemporary archaeology, it is concerned with what objects mean to us, and our gift for remembering.

Author
Mats Burstroem
Publication Name
Treasured Memories: Tales of Buried Belongings in Wartime Estonia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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