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On May 4th, VEMU’s guests, partners, supporters, volunteers, performers, and employees gathered for a festive evening in Tartu College’s main hall to capture the elusive Spirit of Tartu together. But was it truly elusive?

2.11.1920 Pärnu – 23.04.2024 Stockholm The long and meaningful life path of the oldest member of the Baltic Heritage Network, Mai Raud-Pähn, has ended. Mai joined the organization during its early years as the leader of the Stockholm Estonian Archives Group. She was an honorary member of BaltHerNet since 2014.

To mark the 80th anniversary of massive WWII refugee flight west, the  Baltic Heritage Network and the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania are organizing an international conference Eighty Years after 1944: Then and Now.

The Panevėžys Regional History Museum’s exposition “To Stay, to Emigrate, or to Return?” was recognized the best in the country by the Lithuanian Museum Association.

Connected to the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape of 1944, VEMU is organizing a collection campaign “Our Relics,” over the course of which we’re awaiting artefacts, photos, and archival material which were taken along in the escape from Estonia, as well as stories that accompany those belongings.

The deadline for submitting a paper for the BaltHerNet conference “Eighty Years after 1944: Then and Now” has been extended to 22 March 2024.

The spring edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter is now available. In these pages, you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.

In addition to other events, VEMU is focusing on three main themes in 2024: the 80th anniversary of the Mass Exodus, Tartu as the 2024 European Cultural Capital, and the year of cultural diversity.

As of 2023, VEMU is sharing its photo archives through Instagram posts, which follow historically important events and days, as well as current topics. Follow us at: https://www.instagram.com/vemu.emc/

Congratulations to the founding member of the Baltic Heritage Network Merike Kiipus, who was awarded the Order of the White Star Fifth Class by the President of the Republic of Estonia Alar Karis on Estonian Independence Day! Merike has worked at the Estonian Literary Museum’s archival library for nearly half a century. From 1999 onwards, she has been the head of the library and has also acted as the director of the Literary Museum. From the entire BaltHerNet family, congratulations Merike!