On this day 83 years ago, thousands of people were deported to Siberia by the Soviet occupiers, and many of them never came back.
There were two main waves of deportations, one in the wake of the Soviet Union's 1940 occupation of independent Latvia, which saw more than 15,000 people (including 2,400 children under the age of ten) loaded into trucks on June 14, 1941.
According to the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia: "Conditions in the hard labor camps were inhumane. The...