Director, author and journalist Imbi Paju has won international attention with ”Memories Denied”, her award-winning documentary film and book of the same name. Both the film and the book deal with her mother’s experiences in a Soviet slave labor camp, the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and the attempts by totalitarian regimes to destroy human memory. The book has been translated into several langauges and in 2007 it was selected for use in the Swedish school program ”Living History,” which deals with both Nazi and Communist crimes. Imbi Paju has shown her film and participated in many international film festivals and history seminars and has helped to create an understanding of the nature of totalitarianism. Paju has been praised for her ability visually to portray traumas of the past, something that is hard to do with words alone.In 2009, Paju and Finnish writer Sofi Oksanen published a collection of essays entitled ”Fear Was Beind Everything” (WSOY) which further develops the same themes. The documentary ””Sisters across the Gulf of Finland”” which deals with terror, totalitarianism and humanity is the next step on the search for the truth.