We Sang Through Tears

Many years had to pass before these stories could be told. They are first hand accounts written by people deported from Latvia to Serbia in the 1940'a and 1950's. They tell about the tragic times when a knock on the door in the middle of the night meant the beginning of a long painful journey in a cattle wagon to an unknown destination. The deportees suffered extreme hardship, and many thousands of them starved or froze to death in the "sleeping land", as the early inhabitants called Siberia. Love of their homeland, Latvia, and the hope of returning one day, helped to sustain those who managed to survive.