In early 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Latvia my grandmother, step-grandfather and mother left Riga to go and live in Tervete, a village south west of Riga…..
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In June 1941 Latvia was invaded by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Barbarossa - code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union…..
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My mother told me few stories of her life growing up in Latvia……
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Some more recently discovered photographs from my mother’s Latvian archive have come to light……
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Fleeing for her life along with thousands of others in the face of the Soviet invasion, my mother left Latvia towards the end of World War 2 in the autumn of 1944….
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A story as old as time itself and sadly still happening all over the world….
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Family history can be unreliable and nebulous especially in troubled times…..
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Every picture tells a story but how to decipher it?……
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In my mother’s box of Latvian photographs are a handful of images which I return to again and again…..
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On a recent visit to my father's house, I rediscovered a box of old photos belonging to my late mother…..
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