Having finished our first project to bring These Names Accuse to the web, we considered what else would be of interest. When Peters found a DP-era1 almanac, the “Latvian Exiles’ Calendar 1947”, browsing through a bookshelf upstairs at his mother's house, it seemed a good place to begin sharing historical artifacts. Not only for its preservation of events, including a calendar of historic events, births, and deaths, but especially for its pictures and poetry longing for home.
Ever-practical as Latvians are, it also includes other features, such as names' days, an 1801-1980 perpetual calendar and time zones for major cities.
It's our sense that there is very little available on the web that speaks directly to the personal experiences of this period, of life in the DP camps. We hope this is at least a small start in presenting a window into that time in the life of our parents and of the collective Latvian past.
1 | Displaced Persons refugee camps set up after WWII |