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The Children of Siberia

2001-06-14 lv 53m
Documentary
On June 14, 1941, more than 15,000 Latvian inhabitants, including approximately 4,000 children of Latvian, Jewish, Polish and Russian ethnicity were deported to Siberia. During this period of deportation by the Soviet invaders, the men were separated from their families and sent to the Gulag. Some were sentenced to the highest punishment, death, and the rest were kept in labor camps. The women and children were sent to the remote Krasnoyarsk and Tomsk districts. The first two years were the most difficult and many perished from the harsh conditions. Today some 400 of those deported children still live in Latvia and Siberia. This documentary describes the fate of these children.

Sound Director

Armands Zvirbulis

Director

Dzintra Geka-Vaska

Writer

Dzintra Geka-Vaska

Producer

Dzintra Geka-Vaska

Editor

Armands Zvirbulis

Camera Operator

Ingars Leitis

Status

Released

Countries

  • Latvia

Companies

  • Latvijas Televizija