What was the fate of Latvian Jewish population sent to gulags in June 1941?
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You mention "I'm trying to figure out whether any part of this branch of my family might still exist in the eastern hemisphere."
Only a few months ago I confirmed 3 lines of Latvian relatives via DNA from one line with living descendants. Three siblings of my great-grandmother stayed in Latvia when the remainder of the siblings came to the US. The surname is relatively common. And none of us looking for relatives had heard of or recalled hearing about other relatives...until this week when a few letters were found in a relative's belongings dating from the 1940s. It is also easy to lose track of people or generations as women often change their name with marriage. DNA helped with the confirmation. Putting a tree on MyHeritage and Geni also helped. The letters are a touching reminder of the difficulty of life in Latvia in the 1940s.
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were deported to the gulags
GULag was an administrative subdivision, so "deportation to GULag" doesn't make sense. People could be sentenced to prisons, ITLs ("correctional labour camps") or "special settlements" which were under GULag's supervision in 1941. All these have different regimes.
People who were sent to the gulags apparently did not have full rights to live where they wished, even after their terms were up
In the 50s 'tis was gradually changed. Germans were released first. Speaking of people from Baltics, the biggest part was released in 1954-58. On 1.1.59 there were only about 7000 remained in Siberia (those who actively struggled against SU).
Actually people from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in the 50s gained the right to return to these republics. But many of them had to settle there according to the special directions and not to return to the places where they lived before.
So it's most likely that their descendants now live in Latvia.
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