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In case of luck a collector can find some private letters written a long time ago. They may be considered as a valuable source for family histories, because in many cases they relates a lot about the real life of the authors at the moment the letters were written, without additions and biases of the later time. There are a lot of people who are gathering and studying the letters of very important people. Of course, it is a very good and interesting activity. In ROOTS=SAKNES the importance of the authors of the published letters is not important.

Please, be informed that the letters, that are published here, were not written with any intention to explain political process of the global scale or to reach philosophical depths of any problems of human existence. They are what they are - some information about everyday business of the ordinary people.

The list of letters below is organized by the time they were written.

 

Antiņš Formally these are not letters but rather postcards with texts that were sent from Vidzeme [Livland] across the front line of the WW1 to Jānis Antiņš, a Russia war prisoner in Germany. 4 Names: Antiņš, Bušs, Bičulis, Poškus
Veisters A letter sent from Stalingrad in the USSR, where the author worked in a factory. He informed about his life in Soviet Russia in the 1930s.
Rainen 3 letters sent from the USSR to Latvia in the 1930s. The author was an ordinary woman and described her family life and the problems they were faced to. 4 names: Rainens, Kalniņš, Folkmanis, Slava
Zelma The letter that Zelma (family name unknown) wrote to her boyfriend Vilis Auziņš in summer 1940. It reveals some impressions of a worker girl on the new life that had began under communists.
Edgars Sarkanis Two postcards sent in 1942 by an SS-man from his school and from his military service in Belorus. 3 Names: Andersons, Jansons, Sarkanis
Jūlijs Jogints The author of these 9 letters was an SS-man, who was busy with extermination of Jews in Minsk Ghetto in 1942-1943. He wrote the letters from Minsk to his mother and to a brother in Riga. Though the letters directly say nothing about the tasks and activities of the author, they are very informative because uncover his way of thinking quite clearly. 4 Names: Jogints, Jurkovičs, Gulbis, Krauklis
Jānis Jagars Jānis Jagars wrote his letters in 1943 from an organization in the railway station Udeļnaja near Moscow to the place were his sister was evacuated. 3 Names: Jagars, Jauntirāns, Silmanis
Otilijas fate L.Ceriņš wrote from Siberia in May 1949 about the last days of Otilija (the family name unknown).

 

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