Remains.se logotype – the ruin at Saaremaa, Estonia

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

As a reference for the new remains.se logotype, I will be using a picture I took on the island of Saaremaa (Ösel) outside Estonia’s west-coast. The remains of this building was everything that was left from the “fishing house” that my great grandfather (my mom’s grandfather) August Raun built and used for drying fish (he was a fisherman). This old house is probably why I got my interest in history in the first place, it was about 14 years ago I was in Estonia, the homeland of my relatives, for the first time. Behind this house, at the stone beach, my grandmother Saida (my dad’s mom) and her sister Asta was put in small fishing boats in the middle of the night and waved goodbye to their parents. Later on, their parents was deported to Sibiria.

They did never see each other again.