Dear friends and colleagues,
It is my honour to invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Latvian Tragedy-1941, a joint exhibition compiled bythe Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and The Museum “Jews in Latvia” and co-sponsored by the Latvian Council of Jewish Communities. The opening ceremony will take place on May 7th at 18:30 in the exhibition space ‘Gallery Cafeteria’, on the ground floor of the ASP building. (more…)
On June 14th, the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels will hosted an exhibition “Birch Bark Letters from Siberia.” The exhibition was organized by MEP Sandra Kalniete (EPP,Latvia), in collaboration with the Tukums Museum in Latvia. For one week, MEPs, staff and guests were able to acquaint themselves with letters which were written on birch bark and sent to the loved ones of Latvians who were forcefully deported to Siberia. Today, from several thousand such examples only 19 remain in the collections of Latvian museums, as historical evidence of this most tragic past. Elza Serdāne, the author of one such letter which has miraculously survived to this day, also took part in the official opening ceremony of the exhibition. At the age of 73, Elza is the active leader of the Politically Repressed Society in her home town of Madona. (more…)
Press release
Strasbourg, 18 May 2010
Yesterday, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg upheld the war crimes conviction of a “Red Partisan” who was found guilty of ordering the killing of civilians while fighting for Soviet forces in Nazi-occupied Latvia in 1944. (more…)
