Timotey’s Grandmother Anna Rozentale was born in 1920 and in 1940 got married with Gotfrid Skuja, with whom they learned together in secondary school. When Germans came in to the Latvia everybody had to go to work. Our grandmother was sent to wrap candies Gotiņa in candy papers. And grandmother’s husband was taken into war with German army. In Berlin in service he was working as radio operator. In Germany Gotfrid met German girl and both got married and decided to move to America. If Gotfrid would have a chance to go back to his first wife Anna, and if he would use that chance he would be 100% deported to Siberia, for cooperation with Germans. Gotfrid’s first wife – our grandmother, left alone in Liepaja was expecting their common son Miervaldis. But they have never met each other again; just correspond to each other by post. Gotfrid wrote to Anna, even asking to send some pictures to see how his first wife looks like. But Timotey’s other grandfather, to avoid from deportation to Siberia, was hiding by sitting few days in big and bushy fir-tree, in forest not far from his home in Saldus region called Pampāļi and thus escaped from deportation.

Timotejs Rozentāls, 12 years