On October 30, 2025, as part of the release of the book “Mothers in Siberia”, the “Children of Siberia” Foundation is organizing an international conference on the role of women in the deportations of 1941 and 1949. The event will take place in Riga, at the European Union House. The book launch will begin at 2:00 PM.
Participants will include the protagonists of the book, delegations of former deportees from all three Baltic States, representatives of the Museums of Occupations of Lithuania and Estonia – Milda Jarušaitienė and Maja Soomägi, Member of the European Parliament Sandra Kalniete, and historians from Latvia.
In the early 2000s, while creating the film “Children of Siberia”, we interviewed people who, as children, had been deported to Siberia in 1941. During this process and later, while conducting expeditions to former deportation sites in Siberia, we also met and interviewed the mothers of those deported children.
The book “Mothers in Siberia” brings together fragments from these interviews with the mothers and their children, who were deported on June 14, 1941. This book is about their memories and stories. It is a timeless tribute to Latvian Mothers.
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