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About the list of names
Part 5—The list of names
| The List | The list published here contains the names of those Latvian citizens who were deported from Latvia to Soviet Russia during the Soviet occupation of 1940-1941. |
| The list was compiled in Riga in 1942, during the German occupation. When in 1941, the latter superseded the Soviet occupation, some Latvian organizations: the Latvian Red Cross, the Latvian Statistical Board and the Information Bureau of the Latvian Relief ("Tautas palidziba"), made an attempt towards establishing the losses of human life which the Latvian people had suffered during the Soviet occupation. A general inquiry was launched, in the course of which the relatives and friends of missing or deported Latvians reported their family members and acquaintances who had been deported, murdered by the Cheka or who were simply missing, attesting their statements with their own signatures. The questionnaires collected were checked by the Latvian Statistical Board and the data statistically compiled. All names included in this list were reported by January 20, 1942. It must, however, be taken into consideration that a number of deportees had no relatives or friends to send in their names and make the necessary statements. The registration of losses of human life was continued afterwards and by January 1, 1943, the total of Latvian victims, deported or murdered by the bolsheviks, exceeded 34,000. The published list must not be regarded as complete, containing, as it does, only some 30,000 names. Not included are the names of those murdered, nor of those who were registered but who were recovered before January 20, 1942. Among the names in this list will be found quite a few persons who as fellow travellers of the communists of their own free will followed the retreating Red Army, but were, for tactical reasons, reported by their relatives as deported. Part of them returned when the Russians occupied Latvia for the second time, having been forcibly enrolled in the Red Army. | |
| The original of the list published here was in its time sent to the International Red Cross in Switzerland to be a guide in tracing of fates of the deportees. | |
| Now, after 40 years of bolshevik terror, the number of perished and deported Latvians has multiplied, by far exceeding the number of names contained in this list. Those additional thousands of names are kept in the secret files of the NKVD. |
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- Synopsis
- Preface
- Historical background, 1920–1939
- Sovietization of the Baltic states decided
- USSR invades and annexes Latvia
- Deportations, ruthless subjugation, NKVD atrocities, and Russification
- About the list of names
- Appendix 1 — Deportation order Nr. 001223
- Appendix 2 — Deportee registration form
- Appendix 3 — Deportee list
- Appendix 4 — Trains and deportee counts
- Appendix 5 — Order to deport General Balodis
- Appendix 6 — Deportation trains
- Appendix 7 — "All must be shot"
- Appendix 8 — Release certificate
- Appendix 9 — Baltezers victims, photo
- Appendix 10 — Dreiliņi mass grave, photo
- Appendix 11 — Prison yard corpses, photo
- Appendix 12 — Slave labor camps, photo
- Appendix 13 — First edition, list of names
- Appendix 14 — Prison system, satellite view
- Appendix 15 — Wladimir prison, satellite view
- List of names — Key to list and first page, facsimile
- List of names — Partial transcription, see Synopsis for online database instructions
- List of names — fascimile pages
1941Letters on Birch Bark1941Soviet War News19421942A Shepherd Died1943Baltic States as British Market
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