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Gulagu pārdzīvojušo atmiņas

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Holokausts. The Holocaust

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pasaules karš

WW2

These Names Accuse

Gunāra Astras Brīvības fonds   

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Latvijas vēsture

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The Ghastly Year
A collection of photos and documents covering the communist rule in Latvia from June 17, 1940 to July 1, 1941

Baigais Gads

    Articles in English
   
The Progress Report of Latvia's History Commission: Crimes against Humanity Committed in the Territory of Latvia from 1940 to 1956 during the Occupations of the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany
Preamble
Crimes against Humanity in the Territory of Latvia during the Soviet Occupation 1940–41
Holocaust in the Territory of Latvia during Nazi Occupation 1941-1945
Crimes against Humanity in the Territory of Latvia during Nazi Occupation 1941-1945
Crimes against Humanity in the Territory of Latvia during the Soviet Occupation 1944–1956

    Briefing papers (The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, August 2004): 

Three Occupations 1940-1991. Soviet and Nazi Take-Overs and Their Consequences. Occupation Museum Foundation, Riga, 2004  (Adobe.pdf file 2.85MB)

A Few Words About History, Russia and Latvia. Address by Prof. Aivars Stranga, University of Latvia, 2005

The Occupation of Latvia: Aspects of History and International Law. Report by Dr.Inesis Feldmanis, 2004

The Volunteer SS Legion in Latvia. Comments by Dr. Inesis Feldmanis and Dr. Kārlis Kangeris regarding the memorandum disseminated by the Department of Information and Press Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, 13 February 2004

"The Latvian Legion: the Most Topical Research Problems" Lecture of Dr. Inesis Feldmanis at the opening of the 7th volume of the  Works of the International Committee of Historians, 14 January 2003

History of Latvia (1939-1991). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia.

"Latvia's History: Education, Remembrance, Research", MFA newsletter


Archaeology of Terror
Latvian Experience in Terror Archeology. Conference Tallinn on 20 and 21 October 2005

Dealing with War Crimes and Genocide Commited on Latvian Territory

The Commission of the Historians of Latvia
The Commission of the Historians of Latvia
  http://www.president.lv/index.php?pid=2240

ORDER No 001223 regarding the Procedure for carrying out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

The Top Secret Operation "Priboi" ('Surf')
The Deportation of Population from the Baltic Countries 1949

Latvia's Darkest Day 
The broadest deportation of repressed individuals took place between 25 and 29 March 1949.

History of the Occupation of Latvia (1940-1991) by Valters Nollendorfs and Uldis Neiburgs

Symposium of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, Volume 14

LIVING THROUGH EXTREME STRESS.  Latvian survivors of deportations to Soviet forced labor camps

ONLY WITH TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST CAN ONE CONFIDENTLY FACE THE FUTURE  Latvian Association of Victims of Political Repression appeals... 

LATVIA UNDER TWO OCCUPATIONAL POWERS: PROBLEMS AND PARADIGMS  The friendship treaty signed by the USSR and Germany on 23 August 1939, which has gone down in history as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, actually meant the union of Stalin and Hitler against the freedom of the peoples of the world, in the first place by destroying the independence of East European states. It brought many millions of people to ruin...

REPRESSIONS AGAINST LATVIAN POPULATION IN 1940/1941 -1944/1945: THE COMMON AND THE DIFFERENT.Although formally the Republic of Latvia existed until 21 July 1940, various repressions against Latvian population were started right after the occupation of Latvia in June 1940. They became increasingly intensive after a full annexation of Latvia...

THE FATEFUL SUMMER OF 1940 
Bruno Kalnins. From a memoir published in the monthly Briviba (Freedom), 1980


Tragedy of Maslenki, 1940
 
A new exhibition at Latvia's Occupation Museum, documents a bloody incident that took place 60 years ago on the Latvian-Russian border and heralded the tragic era of Soviet domination

Latvia: Year of Horror  A collection of photos and documents covering the communist rule in Latvia from June 17, 1940 to July 1, 1941

No more Munichs, no more Yaltas

DECLARATION ON CONDEMNATION OF THE TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST OCCUPATION REGIME IMPLEMENTED IN LATVIA BY THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Declaration by Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia regarding 9 May 2005 

President of Latvia — on BBC television with Tim Sebastian. BBC television programme Hard Talk , aired 06-11-2000

Latvians Can't Escape Cold War's Divisive Legacy The New York Times, 20 May 2001

Ethnic References in War Crimes Trials and Multiculturalism
by Andy Bicevskis

International Crimes and Generic Ethnic Accusations  by Andy Bicevskis

Latvians and Jews Between Germany and Russia by Frank Gordon.

Remembrance and understanding of the Holocaust in Latvia Speech by H.E. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of Latvia

Address of the Latvian State president in the ceremony dedicated to the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Genocide against the Jewish Nation in the Synagogue

THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA by Andrew Ezergailis
Andrew Ezergailis. The Holocaust in Latvia.Preface
Andrew Ezergailis. The Holocaust in Latvia. Introduction
A Letter to German Journalists: Between Judgment and Complexity

by Andrew Ezergailis.  Even before the Berlin wall had fallen, it was noticeable that for many German historians and their journalistic auxiliaries another barrier, a mental one, was arising between Germany and Eastern Europe, which may turn out to be more intractable than the one pneumatic drills destroyed in 1989....

Karlis Kangeris.THE "REPATRIATION" OF THE BALTIC GERMANS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE PACTS: A NEW NAZI POPULATION POLICY OR THE REALIZATION OF FORMER PLANS?

EXTERMINATION OF THE LATVIAN JEWS IN 1941 by Margers Vestermanis

SELF-DEFENSE "COMANDANTURES" IN THE HOLOCAUST by A. Ezergailis

Remembering a legacy of terror
Josef Stalin is reported to have said with vicious cynicism, “one man dying in a traffic accident is a tragedy, but a million dead is just a statistic.” 

Stalinist KGB Terror Goes Multimedia With CD-ROM on Gulags

Surviving the Soviet Occupation
By Mr. V. Veldre, retired 1st Lt of Latvian Army.... participated actively in the reconstruction of the Latvian Officer`s Union.

SOME ARTICLES FROM NEWSPAPERS:

There is discrimination but there is also ...... Well, what is it, actually??
R.W. Reuderink, specialist on Baltic Affairs. In Estonia and Latvia there is regular discussion about/on the signing of international treaties on minorities...


Uncovering Latvia's WWII navy
Sixty years after their stories of dodging German U-boats while helping the Allies win World War II were splashed across U.S. newspapers, a group of unsung Latvian sailors is finally making news back home

COURT RELEASES WAR CRIMINAL KONONOV

SAVENKO WAR CRIMES TRIAL OPENS IN LIEPAJA

Stalinist Agents Off to Court in the Baltics

SOVIET CRIMES IN SPOTLIGHT
On Sept. 27, the Riga Regional Court sentenced an ailing Mikhail Farbtuh, 83, to seven years in prison. It was the second conviction under Latvian law against genocide...
LATVIA CONVICTS WAR CRIMINAL ON MURDER OF NINE
FOUR COUNTRIES PLAY HOT POTATO WITH KALEJS
KALEJS CHARGED, ARREST DELAYED
Latvian translations slow war crime trial
LATVIANS HONORED AS "RIGHTEOUS AMONG NATIONS"
Leaders call for broader Holocaust study The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office transferred to Vilnius District Court the criminal case of Jewish genocide suspect Kazys Gimzauskas
Latvia donates for Holocaust research
EXPLOSION INCREASES POLICE PATROLS AT MEMORIAL SITES
Holocausts by Aivars Slucis
BEAR BEHAVING BADLY. Russia often complains about its waning influence and says it
gets no respect from the West...
Council votes to remove museum
NATIONAL PASSIONS SUBSIDE AROUND VETERANS MARCH

BOOK CHRONICLES ANTI-SOVIET RESISTANCE
By Rokas M. Tracevskis

Headlines of some articles published in 2001


 

 

Helene Celmina. Women in Soviet Prisons
I begin my book with a description of the Riga KGB for two reasons: First, readers familiar with The KGB prison in Moscow may think such a place exists only in Moscow

 These Names Accuse  The book is a recounting of the Soviet deportations of 1940-1941, during the Soviet "Year of Terror"
International conference "The Soviet Occupation Regime in the Baltic States 1944 -1959: Policies and their Consequences" Riga, 13-14 June 2002

 Deklarācijas, konvencijas


Dokumenti, arhīvu materiāli, pētījumi

Izstāde "Sibīrijas bērni"
Exposition "Children of Siberia

 

Latvian village in Siberia
 Lejas Bulāna

 

LETTONIE - RUSSIE
Traités et documents de base - in extenso

 


Molotova - Ribentropa pakts

 

Ekspedīcijas uz Gulaga nometņu vietām

Krasnoyarsk Memorial society
This site represents an encyclopaedia of victims of political reprisals.
In Russian, English, German

 

Martirologa projekts
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 Estonian Occupations Museum. Igauņu, angļu un krievu valodās


 Genocide and resistance research centre of Lithuania

 Par latviešu leģionāriem Nirnbergas tiesu pils un cietuma apsardzē

Ieslodzīto un deportēto dzeja un dziesmas

Diena, kad pieminām arī represētos ticīgos
R. Baloža raksts

Gunta Kalmes grāmata
...veltīta jums, kas izturējāt un nesalūzāt, jums, kas bezcerīgajos padomju gados iestājāties par cilvēka cieņu...


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