Oral history with Aina Lesiņa, 2000 December 7 (excerpt)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Aina Lesiņa recalls memories of the first Soviet occupation starting from June 1940 and memories of WW2 in Ogre and Ērgļi, 1941-1944. Aina describes her sister Vilma who was killed by a land mine explosion that also injured Aina. She recalls the treatment of her wounds in the Toropec hospital in Russia, and her return to the Latvian SSR. She describes the period after WW2. Aina tells about the second mass deportation from Latvia in March 1949, when she was deported from Ogre, Latvia, to the Tomsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia. Aina retells memories of the conditions and life in a forced resettlement until her release in 1957. Aina describes her mother Milda and father Jānis Purviņš, and recalls some episodes from the history of Lejasciems.
Description
Type of resource | moving image |
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Form | videocassette |
Extent | 1 VHS tape |
Place | Latvia |
Date created | December 7, 2000 |
Language | Latvian; English |
Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Broadcast standard | PAL |
Sound content | sound |
Color content | color |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Lesiņa, Aina, 1934- | |
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Interviewer | Feldmanis, Andrejs Edvīns |
Subjects
Subject | Latvia > History > Soviet occupation, 1940-1941 |
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Subject | Deportees > Latvia > History > 20th century |
Genre | Filmed interviews |
Bibliographic information
Note | Reformatted by Stanford University Libraries in 2015. |
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Note | Latvian with English subtitles |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mg190kk6070 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- A digital use copy of the digitized files, except for ten edited videos that have been made accessible to the world through SearchWorks, is available in the Special Collections Reading Room for authorized researchers. Content is made available for research purposes only. For permission to access or reproduce, please send a written request to mol-access@lists.stanford.edu.
- Copyright
- Copyright © Occupation Museum Association of Latvia / Latvijas Okupācijas muzeja biedrība. All rights reserved.
Collection
Museum of the Occupation of Latvia audiovisual archive, 1994-2014
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