June 23, 1941. Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union had begun the previous day, and soon the first German units reached Communist-occupied Latvia. At the last minute, Soviet security authorities attempt to arrest Latvian citizens who have even the slightest, mostly entirely false, suspicion that they are foreign “spies”. The list of Chekists also included the Sachs family – the famous singer Paul Sachs, as well as his two daughters from his first marriage – Ariadna and Yogita. Paul Sachs was lucky to escape the communist rulers, but his daughters weren’t so lucky. Ariadna and Yogita ended up in penal camps, one of them survived and went home, the other died at the age of 22, one might say – froze.
The Delphi portal continues its research on the talented Latvian girl Ariadna Lindgren, whose fate was broken by the Soviet occupation power, “inflating” the criminal case that Ariadna is a woman of pressure.
“It was June 23, just before midsummer. We had come to my father’s country estate, Kęmpju Manor near Līgatne, to celebrate midsummer. That day the Chekists came to look for my father. It is interesting that they were Latvians. By the way, the Chekists stopped by the opera singer Jānis Kornet and asked where Sax lived. Cornet answered them – seven kilometers away, beyond Līgatne. But he was wrong.
