A Ghost Town Deep in the Baltic Forests: Exploring Skrunda-1
It was late morning, somewhere on a long straight road in western Latvia, when the satnav finally announced our arrival.Continue Reading →
A Ghost Town Unsuitable for Humans: Patarei Sea Fortress
“When I walk through the place, memories of other people keep popping up; it is a geography of grief."Continue Reading →
Dissidence in Our Blood: Survival in a 1984 Soviet Bunker
“You, obviously, have got to play the dissident. You Lithuanian-Americans were all dissidents to the Soviets.”Continue Reading →
The Project to Restore the 200-Year-Old Jewish Cemetery Destroyed Under Soviet Rule
Under Soviet rule, tens of thousands of Jewish gravestones were ripped from the graves they marked at the historic "Old" and "New" Jewish cemeteriesContinue Reading →
Latvia's Hidden Viking Heritage: the Lost City of Seeburg
If you visit Grobiņa nowadays, you will see almost no signs of the past settlement.Continue Reading →