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My family, like many tens of thousands of Latvians of their generation throughout the world, share a common experience: that of the refugee fleeing the onslaught of a merciless Russian army.

Having survived the first Russian occupation of Latvia of 1940-41 and endured the ensuing German one, my grandfather felt that this time luck had run out for the Dizgalvis family.

Hastily burying what valuables couldn't be taken with them, my grandfather led the family to Liepaja where they managed to get aboard a ship with a passage to an uncertain future.

After captivity in a labour camp in Poland and a particularly fraught flight through Czechoslovakia my family found themselves in the British Zone of occupied Germany at the end of the war.

Interred at the Displaced Persons' Camp Ohmstede, near Oldenburg, they patiently awaited their fate.

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