Oral history with Jānis Rožkalns, 2013 May 8, 22, 29 (excerpt)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Jānis remembers his education and his youth in Ineši, Latvia. He emphasizes the role of his Christian family. Jānis describes his work places and duties in Rīga. He recalls joining the National resistance movement in the 1970s. He describes in details the aims and the activities of the Movement and cooperation with some other similar organizations and persons from various parts of the USSR. He was arrested in 1983. He describes in detail his imprisonment, interrogations and court proceeding. He was sentenced to five years in a labour camp and three years without the right to return. Jānis remembers life, work, health issues and people he met while incarcerated in PERM-35 and in PERM-37, Russian SSR. He continued to resist the Soviet regime during his years in the labour camps. Jānis remembers the day of amnesty on February 1987. He recalls life after the return and rejoining the resistance movement. He describes the group “Helsinki 86” organised commemoration of the Soviet mass deportations at the Monument of Freedom in Rīga on June 14, 1987. Jānis and his wife and children were forcefully expulsed from the USSR in October 1987. In Germany, he recalls his life, work and struggle for the freedom of Latvia and provides help for Latvia after 1991. Jānis returns to Latvia in 2000.
Description
Type of resource | moving image |
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Form | videocassette |
Extent | 3 MiniDV tapes |
Place | Latvia |
Date created | May 8, 2013 - ; May 29, 2013 |
Language | Latvian; English |
Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Broadcast standard | PAL |
Sound content | sound |
Color content | color |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Rožkalns, Jānis, 1949- |
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Subjects
Subject | Latvia > History > 1940-1991 |
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Subject | Anti-communist movements > Latvia |
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/nk762db0765 |
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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