Benita Plezere

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Benita Plezere-Eglīte (born Benita Plezere, October 12, 1937 in Riga , Latvia ) is a Latvian woman who was deported to Siberia with her family as a teenager and is known for the drawings she made there.

biography

Benita's father came from Annenieki, a small village near Dobele , where the family owned a 205 hectare farm called "Tērces". Benita grew up there with her brother and sister. Her mother was from Jelgava . On March 25, 1949, Benita Plezere and her family were deported to Omsk as part of a large-scale operation , because they were classified as the kulak family because they owned more than 30 hectares of land before World War II. The family lived in Siberia for seven years before they were allowed to return. In 1956 she came back to the Latvian SSR .

drawings

Benita Plezere is known for the drawings she made during her time in Siberia and sent to her godmother in Latvia. The drawings represented the arrest of her family, the trip to Siberia and her everyday life in Omsk. When the family returned to Latvia in 1956, her mother hid the drawings for fear of possible consequences. After Latvia regained its independence, the drawings were donated to the Latvian Occupation Museum. In 1996 a selection of drawings was published in the book Through the eyes of a Child . In 2016 a temporary exhibition of the same name was opened in the Occupation Museum and a short sand film was made based on the life of Benita Plezere.

Web links

Literature by and about Benita Plezere in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Benita Plezere-Eglīte: Ar bērna acīm . Latvijas 50 gadu okupācijas muzeja fund, Riga 1996.
  2. ↑ a b Gillian Purves (ed.): Read we forget: memory of totalitarianism in Europe: a reader for older secondary school students anywhere in Europe . Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, Prague 2013, ISBN 978-80-87211-79-3 .
  3. ↑ "Baltā nakts" and "Stāsti smiltīs (.!)" Okupācijas muzeja pagrabos - Latvijas Okupācijas muzejs. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 ; Retrieved February 9, 2017 (Latvian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / okupacijasmuzejs.lv
  4. ↑ OM IGLITIBAS nodala: "Baltā nakts 2016" Latvijas Okupācijas muzejā. October 6, 2016, accessed February 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Plezere, Benita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plezere-Eglīte, Benita (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvia