Author · Estonia
Ilmar Jaks
Died in 2019
Ilmar Jaks was born on 4 April 1923 in the parish of Asuküla, in Läänemaa, and studied at the Haapsalu gymnasium from 1934 to 1941. Having crossed into Finland, he fought in Infantry Regiment 200, in which the Estonian volunteers served; then mobilised into the Red Army, he spent 1944 and 1945 in a labour battalion, from Saaremaa to Leningrad, of which he kept a diary, before reaching Sweden in 1945. There he had a career in the Swedish administration and as a lawyer, and died on 1 September 2019, aged ninety-six.
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- Short storiesAruanneIlmar Jaks · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature