In the end of World War II, when Soviet troops approached Latvian territory for the second time, approximately 250 thousand people left their homes and became refugees, later – exiles who never returned to their homeland. The purpose of the proposed …
After the collapse of the Soviet Union considerable part of so-called Soviet citizens found themselves in a “foreign” country. Many of them applied for Russian citizenship, however significant part stay without any. There are popular discourses which …
My paper explores the commonalities of structure in the life stories of a mother and her daughter. One of my much loved informants was seventy-two year old Milda a countrywoman from north-east Latvia whom I interviewed in 1992. Returning seven years …
From 28 to 31 May, five participants of the project «Narrative perspectives on intergenerational transmission of memory» (finansed by the Latvian Science Council) visited London, Great Britain, where they took part in the symposium «Amor Narratio: A Symposium on Catherine Riessman's narrative scholarship».
Referātā analizēti emigrācijas iemesli un integrācija jaunajā mītnes zemē, balstoties uz cilvēka piederības izjūtu izcelsmes un mītnes valstij. Kā primārie dati izmantoti dzīvesstāstu intervijas no Latvijas Nacionālās mutvārdu vēstures kolekcijas ar …
Rīkotāji Polijas Mutvārdu vēstures asociācija (POHA) un Krakovas Jagaiļa universitātes Vēstures institūta un centra «Atmiņa un nākotne» (Rememberance and Future) (Vroclava)
Rīkotāji Polijas Mutvārdu vēstures asociācija (POHA) un Krakovas Jagaiļa universitātes Vēstures institūta un centra «Atmiņa un nākotne» (Rememberance and Future) (Vroclava)
Fricis Forstmanis (1906–2004), better known as the poet and translator of poetry Fricis Dziesma, left Latvia in November 1944 in a refugee boat to go to Sweden. During his life, Forstmanis has been not only a poet, journalist, librarian and bookbinder, but also a talented photographer who has used his camera to document both Latvian exile activities in Sweden and create expressive portraits of his contemporaries.
The exhibition shows a small but unique part of Fricis Forstmanis cultural-historical collection.