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Author : Inta Gale Carpenter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Being Latvian in Exile written by Inta Gale Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry G. Kapeikis
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1425134009
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Exile from Latvia written by Harry G. Kapeikis and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile from Latvia is the story of a young boy's experiences before, during and after World War II, told endearingly, to touch the heart. Driven from his beloved Latvia by the Soviet Army, Harijs' family flees to Germany in the hope of being captured by the advancing American forces. The family experiences hardships of all kinds - hunger, homelessness and air raids. They brush with death many times in many ways and their life is often punctuated with misunderstandings, both humorous and tragic. Presumed guilty they must prove their innocence. The continuous migration causes Harijs to lose friends constantly. These experiences shape Harijs' life, surprisingly, in a positive way, especially in the Displaced Persons' camp under dedicated teachers and scoutmasters. There are lighter moments as young Harijs discovers girls, often handling the developing attraction in awkward though humorous ways, eventually touching the heartstrings of a girl tenderly. There is laughter, love, grief, tears and longings of the heart. Finally the anticipation of an unexpected future replaces the memories of cruelty, atrocity, hate, betrayal, misunderstandings, ignorance and fear with commitment to meet the future with confidence. During the war years Harijs made friends only to lose them. He will not lose you. You'll move alongside him through the first-person escapades of a pre-teen boy looking for answers in a senseless world.
Author : Livija D. Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Latvians in Exile written by Livija D. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrejs Plakans
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
ISBN 13 : 9783506760289
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Exiles written by Andrejs Plakans and published by Brill Schoningh. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a group biography of the 175,000+ Latvians who fled their homeland during the final year of World War II (1944-45), lived until 1951 as refugees in Sweden and Germany, and then dispersed to other countries throughout the world. The post-1945 history of these Latvians includes a description of their lives in 'displaced person' camps in post-war Germany, dispersion in the 1949-1951 years, resettlement in new host countries in Europe and overseas, strategies of adaptation to the new circumstances, organizational efforts, acculturation and assimilation, measures of cultural and linguistic preservation, renewal of contacts with the old homeland, generational change and disagreements, political mobilization, changes in personal and group identity, and, after 1991, the inclusion by the Latvian government of the descendants of this post-war population into a formally designated 'Latvian diaspora' (Diaspora Law, 2019).
Author : Astrida Barbins-Stahnke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514403242
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book How Long Is Exile? written by Astrida Barbins-Stahnke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel How Long Is Exile? because of its length had to be divided into two books: I—The Festival of Song and Dance and II—Going Home. The novel is about the Latvian people who suffered in and around World War II, as the two major world powers—Communist Russia and Nazi Germany—converged in fierce battles on the Amber land at the Baltic Sea until it was conquered by one, then the other, and again by the first, and its two million people were as if sliced up in many parts and scattered throughout the world. Divided with each part longing for the other, the nation survived the hot and cold wars, keeping the hope of freedom and the return home alive. That hope was nurtured in ethnic communities and especially enforced at supplemental schools and festivals. As a portion of refugees spun off and assimilated in their various host countries, a large remnant remained and kept the flame of freedom alive. This was no easy and cheap task. It called for dedication, sacrifice, money, and courage. It was watched and monitored from within and without for half a century until, in 1990, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall fell, and the euphoria touched every East European country. As a participant in that so-called exile state, I began writing my version of the experience after the Milwaukee festival, filtering it through the consciousness of my main character Milda Brzia-Arjs, who, coming out of mourning for her husband, Krlis Arjs, arrives at the festival, ready to turn a new leaf in her life. During the four days with like-minded people, interesting events, and common recollections of her childhood, the war and postwar experiences in a displaced persons’ camp flash before her in a swirling kaleidoscope and, at the end, throws her in the direction she did not plan to go. Book I ends there. It is a meditative, reflective life-based fiction that probes deeply into Milda’s psyche and also of other characters who travel the journey with her. Through Milda’s thoughts and actions, we see that the lasting impact of war and how it branches out and goes on onto the third and fourth generations.
Author : Vaira Paegle
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ISBN 13 : 9789934511554
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Thorns of Freedom written by Vaira Paegle and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Inara Verzemnieks
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245128
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming written by Inara Verzemnieks and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A BookPage Best Book of the Year "This exquisitely written book shows how recovery can come generations later through rebuilding connections—to people, the natural world, the past." —Robin Shulman, Washington Post "It’s long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born…that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks writes in this exquisite story of war, exile, and reconnection. Her grandmother’s stories recalled one true home: the family farm left behind in Latvia, where, during WWII, her grandmother Livija and her grandmother’s sister, Ausma, were separated. They would not see each other again for more than 50 years. Raised by her grandparents in Washington State, Inara grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs about a land she had never visited. When Inara discovers the scarf Livija wore when she left home, in a box of her grandmother’s belongings, this tangible remnant of the past points the way back to the remote village where her family broke apart. There it is said the suspend their exile once a year for a pilgrimage through forests and fields to the homes they left behind. Coming to know Ausma and the trauma of her exile to Siberia under Stalin, Inara pieces together Livija’s survival through years as a refugee. Weaving these two parts of the family story together in spellbinding, lyrical prose, she gives us a profound and cathartic account of loss, survival, resilience, and love.
Author : Marita V. Grunts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Latvians in Exile in the Free World, 1940-1980 written by Marita V. Grunts and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Astrida Barbins-Stahnke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514426285
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book How Long Is Exile? written by Astrida Barbins-Stahnke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of Book I How Long is Exile? The Song and Dance Festival of Free Latvians widowed Milda Arajs had taken a new direction in her life. She had decided to break solidarity with her mainstream ethnic community and make good her promise to her daughter Ilga that they would make a "pilgrimage" to Soviet Latvia at Christmas time (1983) and welcome the baby Krijanis, born to American Mara and Latvian Igors, as the symbol of a new era. Also, Milda had chosen to give herself to Peteris Vanags, the one-armed veteran she encountered in the Esslingen DP camp after the war. (Story in Book IIOut of the Ruins of Germany.) They married shortly before the momentous trip, and soon thereafter Milda joined him in Washington, D.C. For a decade they lived happily, making up for lost years of forbidden longing and desireuntil the Soviet Union fell, and the Kingdom of Exile felt the shocks and afershocks. Unbeknown to herself, Milda's Christmas trip behind the Iron Curtain, with all its revalations, was her first step on her Long Road Home. Also, that trip at the height of American women's liberation movement, marked her adult coming of age and becoming the ruler of her life. Released from domestic bonds, she struck out on her own and challenged her mind to higher things. When Peter, in the late 1980s, was asked to join Radio Free Europe in Munich, Milda saw her Road clearly winding its way back to Latvia. This, naturally threatened the marriage. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the Road become bumpy, even trecherous. Afraid and out of step, Peter seemed to lag behind, while Milda hurried forward now that the iron curtain was swept away. With firm steps she returned to her homeland; she reunited with her sister Zelda and reclaimed their parents' apartment. Peter complied and came up with the money, but, as if lost, he often went off by himself, afraid of being watched and pursued until he could not walk anymore. After his death and after the guarded secrets were revealed, Milda took her last steps on The Long Road Home alone. Exile was over, but the sense of exile was imbedded in Milda's mind forever, and it was heavy. She felt the weight most poignantly as she watched fireworks grace the skies at elaborate festivals, where strangers celebrated, frolicking and singing to her unknown songs, and young people rush about in search for passages to new lands, where the grass seemed greener and fame and fortune beckened from clouds with silver linings. As a participant in that, so called exile state, I began writing my version of the experience after the Milwaukee festival, filtering it through the consciousness of my main character Milda Berziņa-Arajs, who, coming out of mourning for her husband Karlis Arajs, arrives at the festival, ready to turn a new leaf in her life. During the four days with like-minded people, interesting events, and common recollections of her childhood, the war and post-war experiences in a displaced persons' camp flash before her in a swirling kaleidescope and, at the end, throws her in the direction she did not plan to go. Book II captures the mood after the fall of the USSR. The ethnic communitiesthe Kingdom of Exileis shaken, and the people awake as if from a deep sleep. Milda suddenly becomes active; she makes crucial decisions and switches from an outdated romantic into a realist as she returns home, meets her estranged sister and the country she had left behind. As she tries to find her place in it, she understands that exile is a state of mind; it is a state where half the world's population liveslike sheuprooted by tyranny and wars. Yet she and other displaced persons go on living and finding pleasure in art, poetry, song, and in each otherthough with a sad, melancholy smile.
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ISBN 13 : 9789934512070
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Latvian art in exile written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juris Rozītis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Displaced Literature written by Juris Rozītis and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Nation in Exile written by and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Violeta Davoliūtė
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633861845
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Narratives of Exile and Identity written by Violeta Davoliūtė and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their representation? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently: how do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? The scholars researched the archives, read testimonies, interviewed former deportees, and examined artifacts of memory produced since the late 1980s, applying crossdisciplinary approaches used at the study of the Holocaust testimonies; the testimonies of women have received a particular emphasis. The essays in the book also examine the issues of transmittance, commemoration and public uses of the memory of deportations in contemporary social, cultural and political contexts of Baltic societies, including the reflection of Gulag legacy in literature, the cinema and museums.
Author : Andrejs Johansons
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Latvian Literature in Exile written by Andrejs Johansons and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Latvian exile periodicals 1944-1952 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda McDowell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134057148
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Hard Labour: The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant 'Volunteer' Workers written by Linda McDowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Second World War ended sixty years ago, there are still untold stories waiting to be heard: stories not only of diplomats and soldiers but also of refugees, camp inmates and ordinary people living in occupied territories, stories of women's and children's lives as well as those of men. In Hard Labour the forgotten voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944 are captured, telling the story of their flight from the advancing Soviet Army, their difficult journeys across central Europe, their lives as displaced people in Allied camps in Germany and finally their refuge in Britain. Hard work is at the centre of these stories, as the women became 'volunteer' workers, first for the Nazi war effort and then as labourers in the British post-war reconstruction plan. In what has been described as a 'venemous postscript' to the War, the fit and able amongst the vast homeless and often stateless population that fetched up in camps run by the Allies in war-devastated Germany were recruited by western states as labourers. Great Britain was the first nation to recruit displaced persons, offering jobs in hospitals and private homes as domestic workers and in the textile industry to young single women (and later men) from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and other once independent states. Many of these women spent the rest of their lives in Britain, longing to return to their homelands but independence came too late for many of them. At the centre of Hard Labour are the lives of twenty-five now elderly Latvia women who came to Britain between 1946 and 1949. Their memories are placed in the context of recent work in feminist history, illuminating debates about displacement and loss as well as the transformation of women's lives in post-war Britain.
Author : Henry George Halla
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book A Study of the Latvian Exile-immigrant Group in Kalamazoo written by Henry George Halla and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
