Members of the Liepāja Polytechnical college youth resistance organization “Kursa,” 1946. Nine of them were sentenced to the highest penalty by the Baltic War District Military Tribunal in Liepāja on December 30, 1947 – 25 years in prison (at that time the death penalty had been abolished), but twenty-one was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment. After an appeal, the Military Tribunal on October 7, 1948, in Riga sentenced all members of the Kursa organization to 25 years in prison. Three of them died in the Gulag camps, the rest returned to Latvia in the mid-1950s, many with damaged health.

From the left: Arvīds Ceļadoma, Rudzinskis, Truļikovskis, Arvīds Eglītis, Roberts Egliņš, Arnolds Šterns, Ernests Harmsons, Arnis Otrups, Gunārs Salms, Aišpurs, Roberts Jansons, an unknown, Oļģerts Lūsis, Miervaldis Vanags, Imants Lanka, Tālivaldis Zelmanis, Visvalds Dzelmenis.

Photo: Museum of the Occupation of Latvia / unidentified author