First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska took part in the launch of a Ukrainian audio guide at the Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom.
This is Estonia’s largest private non-profit museum. It preserves the memory of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Estonia: forty thousand items, photographs, letters, and documents. Among the exhibits are personal belongings of deported people, items made in Gulag camps, letters and notes written on birch bark, as well as materials dedicated to the resistance movement and the struggle for Estonia’s independence. The museum’s founder, doctor and philanthropist Olga Kistler-Ritso, was born in Kyiv in 1920.
“A very important place that feels very familiar to Ukraine and Ukrainians, as we went through the same path, endured the same repressions, and fought the same oppressors. I am grateful, therefore, to everyone involved that the museum is joining the large family of Ukrainian audio guides at the most significant sites around the world, which now includes 117 landmarks in 59 countries,” Olena Zelenska said.
The first Ukrainian-language tour was attended by members of the Ukrainian community in Estonia.