Childhood. Five Stories About. Independent Latvia.

The series of videos “Childhood. Five Stories About” are created, using the testimonies from the Audio-Visual Archive of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. These testimonial excerpts have been compiled into 5 stories that reveal life in various periods of Latvia's history in the 20th century from a child’s perspective. Family, games, school, and language are a few of the aspects through which life “through a child’s eyes” is revealed.
The heroes of this story are sharing their memories about their happy childhood in pre-WW2 Latvia. Olita Medne (b.1932), Inta Krūmiņa (1993-2009), Alfrēds Puškevičs (1931-2015) un Irēna Valija Ābele (b.1926) were deported on 14 June 1941. Lorija Šneidere (1924-2009) for anti-soviet activity was arrested in 1947, but Skaidrīte Meldriņa (1923-2008) ended up in a filtration camp in Siberia in 1945. Only Maiga Fridvalde (b.1926) was not persecuted by the Soviet regime.
The project “Childhood. Five Stories About” is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.