General WBS related posts
The WBS recently received this request for help. Dear Wales Baltic Society, Estonian Scientist Diaspora Society My name is Mira, and I am a senior scientist. My friend Kadri, who is a postdoctoral researcher, and I would like to set up a UK-wide society for Estonian scientists in the UK. I hope that you can help…
Dagnija had something I didn’t have in my life, her grandparents close at hand as she grew up. I envy this because, in our ‘Latvian experience’ growing up in South London, we did not. My grandparents were far away and we never knew them. The past weighs heavily on the children of immigrants as Dagnija…
As the child of World War 2 refugees who settled in the United Kingdom, I absorbed some information about their experiences from my parents who were both from Latvia. Terminology such as refugee, displaced person and DP camp was encountered (but not necessarily understood) at a younger age than I imagine for most children born…
What do you do with the books and other documents that you inherit from your parents or grandparents? If they are in English, you might be able to give them away to charity shops or sell them on eBay. This is more difficult if they are in a relatively obscure, foreign language. If you never…
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