Return To Latvia
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Return To Latvia
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Author : Marina Jarre
language : en
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Release Date : 2023-02-21
Return To Latvia written by Marina Jarre and has been published by New Vessel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A harrowing, culturally rich memoir."—Kirkus Reviews Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return to Latvia—a masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part memoir, part ruminative essay—she looks for traces of her murdered father whom she never bid farewell. Jarre visits the former Jewish ghetto of Riga and its southern forest where tens of thousands were slaughtered in a 1941 mass execution by Nazi death squads with active participation by Latvian collaborators. Here she attempts to reconcile herself with her past, or at least to heal the wounds of a truncated childhood. Piecing together documents and memories, Return to Latvia explores immense guilt, repression, and the complicity of Latvians in the massacres of their Jewish neighbors, highlighting vast Holocaust atrocities that occurred outside the confines of death camps and in plain view.
Thorns Of Freedom
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Author : Vaira Paegle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Thorns Of Freedom written by Vaira Paegle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Anna S Story
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Author : Anna Lejin̦a
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011
Anna S Story written by Anna Lejin̦a and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Latvia categories.
This is a memoir of a Latvian English teacher who recounts what it was like to live through the momentous events that shaped the first half of the Twentieth Century. Through simple but poignant language she takes the reader from life in the Latvian countryside to the Revolution of 1905 in Latvia, then part of Tsarist Russia, life in Russia during the First World War and the Russian revolution, then her return to Latvia and the War of National Liberation in Latvia against Germany and Russia. She tells of life in independent Latvia, her schooling and education as an English language teacher, her trip to London and Berlin and her marriage to Eduards or Teddy as she called him. He had been caught up in the Russian Civil War and found himself fighting in four different armies until with a Latvian unit he was able to return to Latvia travelling accross Siberia to Vladivostok and then by ship from Japan to Latvia. They are both teachers and Anna describes in detail the life of a middle class family until the Second World War shatters their dreams and hopes in Latvia. First Latvia is occupied by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. Through Anna's eyes we see the reign of communist terror and changes this brings to her school. Her brother, his wife and two small children are deported to Siberia .The Soviet nightmare is replaced by the Nazi German occupation after Hitler turns against his former ally Stalin. Anna is interogated by the Gestapo, luckily by a Latvian, who see's that she has been wrongly denounced. She describes the war years on her parent's farm where she and her family have taken refuge and their attempt to save the school's Jewish doctor by signing a petition together with the other teachers and students addressed to the German occupation authorities. Her humanity shines forth in the family's treatment of a Russian prisoner-of-war assigned to them by the German army to work on the farm. Tragedy strikes as she looses her first born child. With the approach of the Red Army the family of three small children, one boy suffering from tuberculosis of the spine and unable to walk, the other two years old, and a baby girl of only two weeks flee to Germany to find refuge with milliions of other refugees with the incoming British and American forces. Many refugees perish during the bombardment of Dresden which Anna witnesses a day after the bombs had dropped as her family trek on foot from Dresden to Oldenburg in northern Germany. On the way they are caught up in no-man's land between the advancing American army and retreating German army. Her son Atis, after being lost, is treated with chocolate by American soldiers before his mother, panic-stricken, finds him. Arriving at a refugee camp at war's end her husband Eduards collapses on the threshold of the refugee building stricken by tuberculosis of the lung. She lovingly nurses him back to health without medical care and the family is taken to Australia in 1960 by a former American troop carrier ship. Anna's Story ends here. In a concluding chapter her son Atis describes how he returned to his homeland from Australia via America, Europe, and Afghanistan. He explains how Latvian independence was regained and what is being done to ensure her long-term freedom.
The Emigrant Communities Of Latvia
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Author : Rita Kaša
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-05-08
The Emigrant Communities Of Latvia written by Rita Kaša and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-08 with Social Science categories.
This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration in their home country. In the context of European migration, the book describes the case of Latvia, which is interesting due to the multiple waves of excessive emigration, continuously high migration potential among European Union member states, and diverse migrant characteristics. It provides a fascinating insight into the social and psychological aspects linked to migration in a comparative context. The data in this volume is rich in providing individual level perspectives of contemporary Latvian migrants by addressing issues such as emigrants’ economic, social and cultural inclusion in the host country, ties with the home country and culture, interaction with public authorities both in the host and home country, political views, and perspectives on the permanent settlement in migration or return. Through topics such as assimilation of children, relationships between emigrants representing different emigration waves, the complex identities and attachments of minority emigrants, and the role of culture and media in identity formation and presentation, this book addresses topics that any contemporary emigrant community is faced with.
Marking Latvia S Return To Europe
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Marking Latvia S Return To Europe written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Geography categories.
Latvia
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Author : Robert Barlas
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date : 2000
Latvia written by Robert Barlas and has been published by Marshall Cavendish this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Diversity is the spice of life, and the highly regarded Cultures of the World series celebrates just that in fully updated, and expanded editions. As has always been true of these outstanding titles, an abundance of vibrant photographs -- including those new to this edition -- stimulate the imaginations of young readers as they travel the globe. A new chapter on the environment focuses on politics and economics as well as on endangered species and the effects of industrialization. Additional authentic recipes add general interest while new maps offer further, easy-to-find facts in About the Geography, About the Culture and About the Economy sections.
Return Migration And Psychosocial Wellbeing
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Author : Zana Vathi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-27
Return Migration And Psychosocial Wellbeing written by Zana Vathi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-27 with Social Science categories.
Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers. Nonetheless, issues of psychosocial wellbeing are rarely discussed in its context. Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing problematises the widely-held assumption that return to the country of origin, especially in the context of voluntary migrations, is a psychologically safe process. By exploding the forced-voluntary dichotomy, it analyses the continuum of experiences of return and the effect of time, the factors that affect the return process and associated mobilities, and their multiple links with returned migrants' wellbeing or psychosocial issues. Drawing research encompassing four different continents – Europe, North America, Africa and Asia – to offer a blend of studies, this timely volume contrasts with previous research which is heavily informed by clinical approaches and concepts, as the contributions in this book come from various disciplinary approaches such as sociology, geography, psychology, politics and anthropology. Indeed, this title will appeal to academics, NGOs and policy-makers working on migration and psychosocial wellbeing; and undergraduate and postgraduate students who are interested in the fields of migration, social policy, ethnicity studies, health studies, human geography, sociology and anthropology.
The Unfinished Road
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Author : Gertrude Schneider
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Unfinished Road written by Gertrude Schneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Amber Coast
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Author : MS Ilse I. Zandstra
language : en
Publisher: Llumina Press
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Amber Coast written by MS Ilse I. Zandstra and has been published by Llumina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A compelling family saga that resonates with tales of peace and war, loss and displacement, immigration, language acquisition and culture shock unfolds against the background of true historical events. The Amber Coast tells the story of one family's flight from war-torn Latvia, struggle to survive, to gain strength and begin all over again in a new country. Though many immigrants never see their old country again, Ilse enjoyed a fortuitous return to Latvia in the summer of 1990, just as the small Baltic country teetered on the brink of freedom from the Soviet Union. Optimism abounds. Change is in the air. Long-separated relatives meet, many for the first time, and the past becomes vividly present. Steeped in nostalgia for the homeland and the longing to return, it is a story that any immigrant can relate to. This historical non-fiction is steeped in memories from Latvia, Germany, Sweden and Canada. In Canada, Ilse grew up in a Latvian family, belonging to the Montreal Latvian community, while being drawn to the Canadian world of school and neighborhood around her.
With Dance Shoes In Siberian Snows
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Author : Sandra Kalniete
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2009
With Dance Shoes In Siberian Snows written by Sandra Kalniete and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Sandra Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is a story of human survival, and it has become the most translated Latvian book in recent history."--Book jacket.