The exhibition “Between Two Occupations” tells about events in the Ogre region from June 22 to July 6, 1941. It was a time when the troops and officials of the communist occupation regime were leaving the territory of Latvia, while the period of Nazi occupation had not yet begun.
It was a complex and chaotic time, characterized by uncertainty, looting, deaths caused by military actions, and the murder of civilians. At the same time, it was also a moment of bold and sometimes desperate hope, when many inhabitants of Latvia, with weapons in their hands, tried to drive the communist occupation regime from their land, believing that the worst was already behind them.
Exhibition author: Inese Dreimane
Design: Rolands Vēgners
Graphic design: Estere Vītola
Translation to English:
In the images:
Notices published in a newspaper in 1941 about looting carried out by employees of the Jumprava Parish Executive Committee while fleeing.
A notice published in a newspaper in 1941 searching for a driver who had been forcibly taken away.
Jumprava parish partisan Kārlis Balodis (1911–?). Arrested on April 30, 1949. On July 18, 1949, the Military Tribunal of the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the Latvian SSR sentenced him to 25 years of imprisonment and 5 years of exile. He was imprisoned in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Released on June 11, 1955.
Pēteris Zelkāns–Kūkseliņš (1896–1941). Lived in Riga. Taken off a train at Ogre station and shot on June 24, 1941, on suspicion of attempting to seize a Red Army officer’s pistol on the train.
