Through hell and back

Oct 22, 1998
Katya Cengel

Seven years after independence, and three years after the repatriation law, the happy homecoming is still just a dream for most deportees and their families, as Katya Cengel reports.As a young man in 1941, Voldemars Jansbergs was deported from Latvia to Siberia. He became a professor but always dreamed about returning to his homeland with his grandson.In the mid-90's, he finally came back to an independent Latvia and bought a flat. But Latvia was not the land he remembered. Without family or fri ...

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