Video interview with Anita Apine-Hermane

The first significant wave of Latvian migration to Australia was after the 1905 revolution, when Latvians, fleeing from deportation and the Tsarist terror, sought refuge in Australia. In 1913, Latvians in Sydney established their association and library, and later smaller associations regularly held Latvian Independence Day celebrations and Jāņi [Midsummer Solstice]. Read more>

Reprisals, arrests and deportations during the first Soviet occupation of Latvia from 1940 to 1941 deeply shocked many Latvian inhabitants. Read more>