Memorial of the Deportation June 14,1941

In such railroad cars, more than 15,000 residents of Latvia-among them 2400 children younger than ten-were arrested without a court order were deported to distant regions of the USSR on June 14, 1941.
Guilty of this crime is the communist regime. Its executors were the members of state security apparatus and their supporters.
 Many died on the way, especially infants, the sick, and the elderly.  Men, totalling some 8250, were separated from their families, arrested, and sent to GULAG hard labour camps.  Women and children were taken to so-called "administrative settlements" as family members of "enemies of the people".
No word of these events was mentioned in Latvia's Soviet-censored newspapers.
Only a small part of those deported in 1941 later returned to Latvia.

Nearby images in Riga

A: Torņakalns Railway Station

by Uldis Bardins, 20 meters away

B: Torņakalns Railway Station (built approx. 1880). Rear view

by Uldis Bardins, 40 meters away

C: Monument (2013) to the Victims of Communist Terror, left view

by Uldis Bardins, 60 meters away

D: Monument (2013) to the Victims of Communist Terror,front view

by Uldis Bardins, 80 meters away

E: Monument (2012) to the Victims of Communist Terror

by Uldis Bardins, 80 meters away

 Located in a grassy island area leading to the Torņakalns Railway Station is a monument made of five...

F: Monument (2013) to the Victims of Communist Terror, right view

by Uldis Bardins, 80 meters away

G: Arcadia Park in Summer

by Uldis Bardins, 80 meters away

H: Arcadia Park

by Uldis Bardins, 200 meters away

I: Arcadia Park (1)

by Uldis Bardins, 260 meters away

J: Pedestrian Tunnel in Arcadia Park

by Uldis Bardins, 290 meters away

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