Silvi Vann-Wall, Author at Estonian World

Silvi Vann-Wall

Silvi Vann-Wall is a second-generation “Austonian”, or Australian of Estonian heritage. She is a journalist, audio producer and filmmaker from Melbourne. Her documentary, “Austonia”, was well received locally and allowed her to join a repatriation program to Estonia in 2016. She hopes to continue documenting the Austonian experience.

For Estonian refugees, a masthead made a new home, half a world away

Silvi Vann-Wall / November 22, 2018

Estonians fleeing the aftermath of the Second World War and the Soviet occupation found their voice in Australia via a newspaper that continues to this day; Silvi Vann-Wall reports on Meie Kodu (Our Home) and the community it continues to serve.* In the tumultuous time after the Second World War, and throughout the Soviet occupation of their tiny country, […]

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