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TitleI remember Hoover Village at Seabrook

AuthorVilms, Peeter

Date Created1994

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Peeter Vilms recalls his youth at Seabrook. Since most adults worked in the fields, children of all cultures at Seabrook were sent to nursery school and day camp. Vilms...

Time Period1949, 1958

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TitleHoover Village

Date Created1950-1959

DescriptionWhen they initially began arriving, Estonian and other refugees were initially housed in Hoover Village, which the company had built in 1944 when the federal housing complex had proved insufficient...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleWooden barracks in Hoover Village

Date Created1949

DescriptionWooden barracks in Hoover Village. The dimension of each barrack was 16' X 48'. The photograph is found on page 8 of Vladmar Heitur's album titled "Estonians from Seabrook".

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleEstonians in transit camp in Germany

Date Created1949-1955

DescriptionMost of the approximately 40,000 Estonians who ended up in the German Displaced Person camps fled with Nazi troops and officials after the Red Army reoccupied Estonia in the fall of 1944. By 1948,...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleFrom Germany to Seabrook

Date Created1949-1955

DescriptionIn 1948, Congress passed the Displaced Persons Act. Beginning in April 1949, more than 650 Estonian displaced persons would join the labor force and residential community at Seabrook Farms.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleEstonian and Japanese women in front of doll display

Date Created1950

DescriptionA group of Estonian and Japanese women pose in front of a doll display in 1950, dressed in traditional costumes.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleCub Scouts

Date Created1949

DescriptionGroup of young cub scouts gathered for a photograph. From Vladmar Heitur album entitled "Estonians from Seabrook: first years starting from 1949". Photograph found on page 31.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleI remember life as an Estonian at Seabrook

AuthorKangur, Helge Tanme

Date Created1966-09-08

DescriptionIn this "I remember" memoir, Helge Kangur recalls her Estonian upbringing at Seabrook. She realizes now how fortunate she was to grow up in such a diverse community. The Seabrook Educational and...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970), 1945, 1950

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TitlePeople in Hoover Village

Date Created1949

DescriptionThe structures of Hoover Village were hastily assembled after the federal housing reached capacity. Although these homes came equipped with indoor plumbing, in comparison to the migrant labor camps,...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleThe first week at Seabrook for some of its Estonian residents, from the album “Eestlased Seabrookin: Esimesed Aastad Alates 1949," (Estonians from Seabrook: First Years Starting from 1949)

AuthorHeitur, Valdmar

Date Created1949

DescriptionThis photograph was featured in an album by Valdmar Heitur entitled "Estonians from Seabrook: first years starting from 1949". It was part of a chapter on the first week in Seabrook.

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)