ErnestsAugustsVoldemarsAnnaRobertsAdolfs
Blankenburgs family in Latvia 1912
Ernests
1863-1950
Augusts
1902-85
Voldemars
1907-91
Anna
1874-1954
Roberts
1900-75
Adolfs
1896-1984

 



Elfrida (right) and friend skiing

Elfrida testing the lake water.


Gunars and his grandmother sledging

 

Last day of Latvian independence 16th June 1940. Elfrida & Valdemars with Dzintra & Gunars.


Stag at daybreak

Elfrida & Valdemars.
.
 Valdemars & 2 friends.

Family group 1927.

Milda dressing her sister Elfrida's hair.

Valdemars & Elfrida wedding day
22nd September 1934.

Gunars having his first engineering lesson from his father.

Family group 1944 to mark the Golden Wedding Anniverary of Ernests and Anna.
   
Germany 1944 - 1947
 

Living in the forest east of the River Elbe. May 1945.

On the back of this photo my father later wrote:
"After escaping the advancing Red Army and then evading the American Army unit which intended to hand over all the Balts (Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians) to the Russians, we hid for 2 weeks in thick forests and lived like gypsies. There was an acute shortage of food and water.

In the picture, from left: my wife Elfrida, my oldest daughter Dzintra, my sister-in-law and my youngest daughter Maija still a baby in the pram."

Elfrida with refugee children

Waiting for transport from DP camp at Soeste

Transport to next DP camp

Sheltering from air raid
Christmas 1944 in Neustadt Gleve.
Olga, Inara, Ligita & Augusts.