Eha's great escape: from silent struggles to storybook

Eha's great escape: from silent struggles to storybook

Kaili Colford, an Estonian-Canadian author, draws on her family’s history, including her grandmother Eha’s escape from Soviet-occupied Estonia, to preserve these stories for future generations. There are some regrets you can’t undo – those that, no matter how much you want to, you can’t make right. That’s how I feel about not asking my “vanaema” (grandma), Eha, more about her traumatic escape from Soviet-occupied Estonia. She passed away last ye…