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Ilmar Reepalu was born in October 1943 in Nõva, present day Estonia. In August 1944 his family fled the advancing Soviet forces in an open boat, heading towards Sweden. Outside the island of Svenska Högarna their boat capsized, but they were saved by the patrolling Swedish navy. He and the rest of his family was at first interned at a refugee camp at Medevi Brunn, but they could later establish themselves in Motala where Reepalu grew up.