Year of Culture Part 1: Museum of the Occupation of Latvia
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia is worth a visit, but make sure you are emotionally prepared.
March 16
16. Marts I just read a pretty good explanation of this holiday here… so I don’t need to completely rehash it. The basic idea is that this is a Veteran’s Day march for the specific group of Latvians who fought in World War II. The problem, of course, is that those men who were drafted …
Vitauts in Latvia 7: Talsi
Talsi and Arnolds Grinbergs After Kuldiga, we drove to Talsi to spend the night. We found out that Ansis wanted us to visit Talsi because that is where our Uncle Arnolds lived after World War II. He was a soldier in the Latvian Army fighting for the German side when the Russians began to move in. …