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  • Аbout development of a profession and work

    Story-teller: “At those times those holidays were not so celebrated. Līgo [Midsummer night festivities], school finishing, I finished the secondary school in Rogovka, I was born and grew up …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: Study and work, Antonina Melne

  • Аbout export to Siberia

    Story-teller: “I grew up alone, the herds tended grazing cattle, we had even four cows. The pasture was far away. About a kilometre in that direction. I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere!& …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: Family, Antonina Melne

  • Hunger in Latgale after World War II

    Story-teller: “Yes, I remember, the year forty-seven, that was the year when we ran short of bread already in spring. We both with my father went to Zemgale, The sister’s brother lived in …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: Holidays and traditions, Andrey Rancan

  • The guerrillas and The Legionaries

    “They were called up for the legion. They came for the leave, and did not return to the front, stayed here, those were those forest brothers. But then they stayed in the woods, and when the …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: End of the war, Andrey Rancan

  • About spending evenings together and parties

    Story-teller: “Winter, that was the fasting time, somehow or what, we went to spend evenings together, that was called vakarēšana [spending evenings together]. The whole lot, maybe they …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: Mode of life, Andrey Rancan

  • About the sister after the World War II

    Story-teller: So, this is how we found her in the end, you see. The war was going on. But here, only, wait, the year forty-fourth, we received the letter in forty-five, we got in on some day in May, …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Antonina Ludborza

  • About holidays and traditions

    Story-teller: “But at the New year … So then, at the New year’s eve we always poured lead [to learn the future]. The youth … We can say, that no year passed and, no New Year& …

    Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte

    Categories: Holidays and traditions, Antonina Ludborza

Popularization of the centres of oral history in the LV-BY cross-border area (LLB-2-143)
Daugavpils University Innovation and Development
Promotion Centre
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Promotion Centre

Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus Cross-border Cooperation
Programme within the European
Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument 2007-2013
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