Vilaka Museum. Exhibitions about the military heritage of the Vilaka area
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Museum educational program-excursion "We create history ourselves"
The Viļaka Museum offers pupils and students a unique excursion-museum pedagogical program to the national partisan settlement in Stompaki. During the excursion, we get to know the activities of the national partisans in Northern Latgale, see the restored bunkers and participate in various tasks. We learn to encrypt text, get to know the areas of activity of the national partisans (camp, saboteur group, supporters, attitude at different times, the Battle of Stompaki and the composition of the warriors of the Battle of Stompaki), subscribe to a special magazine with your own invented nickname, search for lost texts).
Excursion for students "Traces of War in the City of Viļaka"
A city tour, during which we explore places related to World War II, visit the military section of the Viļaka Museum exposition, the Viļaka Catholic Church and the nearby national partisan memorial site, as well as visit the Jewish Holocaust memorial site.
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Liberation of Northern Latgale from the Bolsheviks
On December 1, 1918, parts of the Red Army, based on the Red Rifle units, invaded the territory of Latvia. In order to protect their homes, families, native counties and escape from terror, the men around Balvi took up arms and went into the forests, and the first "green" groups began to form. In the spring of 1919, when the mobilization was announced, many men in the Balvi area were not allowed to fight in the Soviet Latvian army and they joined the "green" groups. Balvi, Silakrog, Rugāji, Teteru-Dūrupe and Liepna groups were formed. In the vicinity of Balvi, the activity of "green" groups became more active in March 1919.
Pēteris Supe - the initiator of the founding of the Latvian National Partisan Association
From 1944 to 1946, Peter Supem managed to unite the national partisan units scattered in the forests in an organized movement that fought against the occupation of Latvia in the Abrene district for several years after the Second World War. Pēteris Supe, nicknamed "Cinītis", was one of the most outstanding organizers and leaders of the national guerrilla movement in Northern Latgale.