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Inspiration
The picture is my Dad as a young man, taken about 1947. My Dad is the original inspiration for writing my novel. He was born and raised in Latvia but left toward the end of World War II. He wound up in Germany in a displaced persons camp where he met my mother and...
1990 Song Festival in Riga, Latvia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYhDW7MBU_s&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1PJNdizHlFZdIvmoqyDZ-yPRbmeKdM6fmPDSZhQ3LV5lOYNg6f2d-ZELI This video is from the 1990 Latvian Song Festival held in Riga. My view in 1990The parade in Riga 1990 My first trip to Latvia was in...
1940 Song Festival
These photos are from a Latvian book titled "Latviešu Dziesmu Svētku Vēsture" written by Valentīns Bērzkalns. My novel opens at the June 1940 regional Song Festival that took place in Daugavpils, Latvia. My grandmother Emma was there....
The Beginning
These are my grandparents, Emma and Arturs. They were the inspiration for the main characters in my novel, SONG OF LATVIA. Many of the things in the novel happened to them. Many others did not. But almost everything happened to someone in Latvia during World War...