Posted by laima on July 29, 2006, at 1:58:27
In reply to Book for descendents of WW2 refugees, posted by ClearSkies on January 8, 2006, at 21:35:27
WOW. Thank you.
I am child of Lithuanian displaced persons, refugees, and I attest that over 50 years later, the war is still an issue. It manifests in my parents, with their STILL processing their trauma, and that really affected me as I was growing up. My dad, now in his late 70's, still cries about memories of seeing neighbors being shot, sent away, the camps, disease, starvation, all of it. What a choice for the Baltic people back then: the Stalinists and Siberia- or the Nazis. Nobody was welcoming. And then wiped off the map of Europe, and the world, for decades. Growing up in America, I'd hear, "so, your weird parents- are they Lutherans? Laplanders....why can't they speak English normal? You same as Russian, obviously? There's no such country as Lithuania!" My personal hunch includes, no wonder the Baltics are now so eager to be part of EU-.
> We are a different breed with different family backgrounds. Our parents came from countries with names that are not recognizable any more, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia.
> This is memoir written by a third party, but by a women so close in identification of the woman in the title that she writes in the i-narrative firm.
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> The book, "The Rings of my Tree: - A Latvian Woman's Journey", I shall pass on to my sister to read. I shall purchase a copy for our Latvian Mother and ask if this book come close to describing her family's experiences during WW2. It would certainlyexplain to much to us daughters.
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