Heli Susi
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Heli Susi | |
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| Born | 14 November 1929 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Died | 8 June 2020 (aged 90) |
| Resting place | Forest Cemetery, Tallinn |
| Occupations | Teacher, translator |
| Spouse | Olev Subbi (divorced) |
| Parent(s) | Arnold Susi Ella Adelgunde Roost |
Heli Susi (Estonian: [ˈhelʲi ˈsusʲi]; 14 November 1929 – 8 June 2020) was an Estonian teacher and translator.[1]
Heli Susi was born in Tallinn[2] as the youngest child and only daughter of lawyer Arnold Susi, who was the Estonian Minister of Education during Acting Prime Minister Otto Tief's last Government of Estonia before the Soviet troops occupied Estonia during the Second World War in September 1944, and Ella Adelgunde Roost, who was a teacher. Her older brothers were Heino Susi, a writer and a biochemist, and Arno Susi, an economist.[3] She attended the Elfriede Lender Private Gymnasium and Tallinn Secondary School No. 8.[3]
Following the reoccupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union, her father was arrested and placed into the gulag camp-system in 1945. In March 1949, Heli, along with her mother, brother Arno, and grandmother, were forcibly deported by Soviet authorities to Ordzhonikidzevsky District, Khakassia in Siberia during Operation Priboi where they were forced to work as laborers. The family was reunited with Arnold Susi in 1954. During exile in Siberia, she met and married fellow Estonian deportee, artist Olev Subbi. The couple had a son, Juhan, who would become a physicist. After the death of Joseph Stalin and the Khrushchev Thaw, the family were released and permitted to return to Estonia in 1958.[3]
