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Viktors Busevics and others, Germany, 1946

Viktors Busevics and others at a displaced persons camp in Germany at the end of World War Two.

The men are displaying the Latvian flag which they had smuggled into the camp. Displaying the flag was prohibited by soviet authorities, but it was common for people in camps to find scrap fabric to fashion Latvian textiles or to embroider the Latvian flag in the linings of clothes, these symbols were a sign of quiet resistance for Latvian people.

Courtesy of Ritta Harrison

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