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Amateur film recorded by Harald Perten depicts the daily life of expatriate Estonians in post-war Stockholm. The traditional ceremony of placing the wreath on the foot of Gustav II Adolf's memorial column on the opera square in Stockholm on the death anniversary on Novermber 6th, 1947. The wreath is placed by the representatives of the Estonian Committee, the Justice of the Supreme Court Timotheus Grünthal, professor Harald Perlitz and Doctor Aadu Lüüs.

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