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Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle

Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle

Neimane, Dagnija

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 0997553308
ISBN13: 9780997553307
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Dec 13 2016
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

A substantial chapter of World War II is resurrected in this sometimes tragic tale of one family's flight from their Latvian homeland and subsequent uncertainty as displaced persons.

On the day Dagnija Neimane's parents married in 1940, the Soviet Russians killed the Latvian border guards, leading to the first Soviet occupation of their country. The following months culminated in the Year of Horror, with mass arrests, executions, and deportations of fifteen thousand Latvians to Siberia. Though Nazi Germany drove off the invaders and in turn occupied Latvia, in 1944 the Soviets gained the upper hand once more. Some Latvians joined the German forces to fight the Soviets, others who could, formulated plans for escape, wondering if there was hope left for their country.

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