It is 14 June 2011, the National Day of Mourning, when I find myself near an inscribed stone at the riverside in Tartu. I see Villem, Valve, Leena, and Johanna; active members of the Memento organization of the repressed. The memory activists Joosep, Kalev, and Vello are present to capture the commemoration on film. Alvar and Osvald are there, as they never miss a commemoration in Tartu. Most other attendees are people who have either been deported to Siberia in the 1940s, or have been born there. The speeches are very informal, and the organizers invite members of the public to share their stories. A woman named Valve steps up to the front to share her story. She says she fled with a friend from Siberia to Estonia when she was only eleven years old. Mart, another speaker, recalls how his father disappeared and never returned after the 1940s. Reet has brought a picture of her uncle, and asks whether anyone has seen him on his way to the Gulag, the Soviet forced labour camps, as her family never got to know his fate. The circle in which these stories are being shared expands after the ceremony concludes and the procession moves towards the city centre. The march not only incorporates wider Tartu society by passing through the streets of the city.