Aged just 20 my mother and her friend Gloria arrived in the UK from Germany on 3rd March 1947…..
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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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After my grandparents separated my grandmother left the theatre never to return…..
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There are just a handful of photographs to record my mother’s early years in Latvia…..
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