Uppsala county was one of the counties that was hit particularly hard by the catastrophic ferry accident on the Baltic Sea in 1994. 55 people from the county died and the majority of these were a group of jurors from the district court in Uppsala.
Åsa Nilsson Bjervner’s mother Mona was one of the judges.
– I remember that we heard on the radio what had happened, but we didn’t know which ferry mother was on. We were told nothing, she says.
Honored at ceremony
On Saturday, a ceremony will be held at the memorial site for Estonia in the Old Cemetery in Uppsala, to honor and remember the people who died in the sinking.
– There are many of us who didn’t get anything back from our relatives, so it’s nice that we have the right place to go to, says Åsa Nilsson Bjervner and places a rose at her mother’s memorial stone.
In the clip above: This is how Åsa Nilsson Bjervner remembers the Estonia disaster that took her mother’s life.