Auzins family

Beth Auzin's audio summary inclduing a descriptiion of the Auzin's family history. Beginning near Riga, Latvia, Beth recites the Auzin's flight form Latvia in WWI into Germany, the time spent in DP Camps, their arrival into Canada to the rural property at Pigeon Lake and their sponsorship by Beth's Aunt. The language barrier, jobs at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, the Lutheran Church in Edmonton, Pierogs, importance of music to Latvians, the trips to Latvia during and after Soviet Occupation and the Latvian community in Edmonton.

Three page history prepared by Andy Auzin's (with photo's and maps) recalling the flight of Valdin and Mary Auzin (and their three boys Andy, Ollie and George) from Latvia and the Russian Soviet Occupation and the deportation of landowners and "politically unreliable persons" to Siberia. Includes detailed description of the flight across Latvia to the Port of Ventspils and boarding the refugee ship there and the voyage into Nazi held Germany and finally the 1945 move into Fischbach Displaced Person's Camp near Nuremberg in 1945.