Aged just 20 my mother and her friend Gloria arrived in the UK from Germany on 3rd March 1947…..
Read MoreThe Flight from Latvia
By the autumn of 1944 the Red Army was pushing south and rather than face life under a second Soviet occupation my Latvian family decided to join the many thousands of their compatriots and flee the country……
Read MoreLeaving Riga
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…..
Read MoreKeeping in Touch
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….
Read MoreExile
A story as old as time itself and sadly still happening all over the world….
Read MorePiecing Together the Past
Family history can be unreliable and nebulous especially in troubled times…..
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