Zvarde: the town that time forgot

Jul 22, 1999
Katya Cengel

This is downtown Zvarde," says Valdis Karklis, looking out the car window at the shrub-covered forest that stretches along both sides of the dirt road.He points to a few stones, and with a good-natured laugh, says, "I used to buy chocolate here."A little further on, the road is so bad we are forced to walk to reach what is left of a church. Karklis climbs through a stone archway and gestures to the half crumbling wall on the other side. "In 1944, my oldest sister was confirmed here."When he retu ...

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