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ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 14, 1941 |
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The Latvian people finally understood the fate to which it was to be subjected. On this night it saw the true face of Bolshevism. Showing no mercy to children, women or old men, during this night the Soviet Authority throughout Latvia arrested the best Latvian families, delivered them to the stations and in barred cattle carriages banished them to the Soviet Union. By such orders, in just a single night 14,693 of its honest sons and daughters were pulled out from the among the Latvian people. |
The Latvian people walked into the hardest period of its trial and suffering |
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Top: The room from which a Latvian family was pulled out and driven onto unknown roads of suffering. At the bottom: a plan of collecting and loading (!) points of convoys anticipated for Latvians to be banished, found in archives left by the Bolsheviks.
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The plan prepared by the Yid, Goldfains, for banishing Latvians to the Soviet Union. |
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| THE ONLY [discovered] PHOTOGRAPHS WHICH PROVE UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES THE LATVIANS WERE DRIVEN AWAY: TRAINS FOR THE BANISHED IN OGRE STATION |
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Relatives of the unfortunates at one of the carriages. A KGB man prohibited the handing of food, drinking water and warm clothing to those being banished. |
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In barred carriages the unfortunates were forced to spend days and nights without food and water on their way of thousands of kilometers. |
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DOORS unfortunates having one last look at their native land through the bars of a window. Armed KGB guards providing security ... How could babies and women and old people resist? How could the Bolsheviks be frightened by Latvian men whose only weapon was their spirit and the determination to endure? |
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Found along the railway, thrown out the windows evidence from those banished on their journey of torture: a book with handwritten information on the destiny of the arrested, an aluminum cup with one final wish: |
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A LIFETIME OF SUNSHINE FOR LATVIA! |
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TO THE SIBERIAN TUNDRA |
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The lines of convoy carriages in Rēzekne Station on their way to the Soviet Union. |
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Materials found in documents left by the Bolsheviks provide indications about those places to which arrested Latvians were banished. A map near by indicates areas where it was planned to locate the banished. The number of persons to placed refers to the number of carriages not people. Those few who at the last moment learned about the terrible plan of the Bolsheviks were trying to look for escape by changing their place of hiding. |
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A National Guard officer with his wife (top ). After three weeks of changing their place of residence and hiding in the forests it is hard to recognize them (right). |
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LATVIANS, DO NOT FORGET!
Anyone who went behind the doors of the KGB passed through the most terrible horror, experienced the deepest torture and suffering. Behind those any persecuted Latvian who did not have the time to escape or did not know how to hide from the bloody grasp of the Bolsheviks ended his lifetime.
«The most democratic Constitution in the world» - the Constitution of the «father of nations and leader of working people» Stalin made sure that the Latvian people «experienced a happy, sunny future». Thousands of Latvians experienced the night of blood and torture from which the only salvation was death. |
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collection points:
loading points.
Word-for-word written about loading, for transportation of people to be banished it is anticipated
to use the cattle carriages.