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Article: Memories of 8 years hiding in Estonia's forests From bunkers to gulags / Eluding the Red Army
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- August 25, 2003
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On a leafy hillside just outside this village, a half-hour walk from
Estonia's border with Latvia, there are nine capacious holes in the
ground. On rare days when he feels up to it, Alfred Kaarmann hides
in them and waits for the children to find him.Then he answers their
questions. ''I tell them we had to do everything ourselves,'' Kaarmann,
leathery and white-haired at 81, said one recent afternoon. ''We
had to wash our clothes. We had to feed ourselves. We had to be on
watch.''And they don't believe it. The times were so frightening.
Young people don't understand.'' Nearly 60 years ago, Kaarmann hid
in bunkers just like the ones here, built by a summer camp to ...