Oral history with Olga Feldentāle, 2012 August 21, 22 (excerpt)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Olga Feldentāle recalls her childhood. She describes the first Soviet occupation starting from June 1940 and the Nazi German occupation from July 1941. She retells episodes about WW2 and describes the post war situation. Olga, together with her mother Anna, sisters Maiga and Zelma, aunt Lizete Buks and uncle Fricis Buks, was deported from Puze, Latvia, to the Omsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia, during the second mass deportation in March 1949. Her father Kārlis Barons was arrested twice – lastly in 1948, sentenced and sent to the GULAG. He joined the family in forced resettlement. Olga recalls everyday life and work in forced resettlement. She was released in 1957 and returned to the Latvian SSR. She describes life and work after the return.
Description
Type of resource | moving image |
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Form | videocassette |
Extent | 2 MiniDV tapes |
Place | Latvia |
Date created | August 21, 2012 - ; August 22, 2012 |
Language | Latvian; English |
Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Broadcast standard | PAL |
Sound content | sound |
Color content | color |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Feldentāle, Olga, 1935- | |
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Interviewer | Feldmanis, Andrejs Edvīns | |
Interviewer | Kalns Timans, Baņuta |
Subjects
Subject | Latvia > History > 20th century |
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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/tx638qv2736 |
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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