Tuesday, 23 April 2019


Other circles

     Dear Fran,
     Today I have realized how little we value the people around us; that are our neighbours and whom we crossed the street for years and years with and that, suddenly, one day we miss.

Sunday, 14 April 2019


Art. 58-8, terror

Gulag (Glavnoie Upravlenie Lagerei), acronym of Main Administration of Camps.

Photographs of the Blumthal family:
    Erich Sõerd and his mother
    Oskar Sõerd
    Erich and Leida 1930s
    Leida and her son, Jaak
    Liisa Ots Blumthal, Leida´s mother
    Linda's police portraits
    Helene-Marie
    Ida
    Adolf

Friday, 5 April 2019


…entre nazismo e comunismo, venha o diabo e escolha

A few weeks ago I was talking about an interview published in the newspaper Público with the writer José Milhazes about his book Os Blumthal. Today I write my impressions on the first pages of the author that reflect the first twenty-two years of Estonia independence.