Exhibition "Fights for Freedom in the 20th Century" at the Jēkabpils History Museum
Museum

Located in Krustpils Castle

Exhibition "Fights for Freedom in the 20th Century" on display
Soviet repressions. Hard memories. Sitting here in a club chair, you have the opportunity to listen to fragments of the book “There Were Such Times” by Ilmārs Knaģis, a resident of Jēkabpils. On one of the walls of the room, a list of citizens deported to Siberia slides dispassionately, like the credits after a movie. Right there, on an old TV, you can watch an amateur video about the removal of the Lenin monument in Jēkabpils. Visitors are interested not only in the content, but also in the technical capabilities - how this film was made on an old TV.

It is possible to listen to lectures prepared by museum specialists at the Jēkabpils History Museum or to register for a field trip: Jēkabpils and its surroundings during the First World War, Jēkabpils in 1990, The Time of the Barricades, 1949 Deportations - 70, Jēkabpilians - Cavaliers of the Lāčplēsis War Order, etc.
The average duration of lectures is 40 minutes. Information and registration for lectures can be found by calling 65221042, 27008136.

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The Jēkabpils History Museum is located in Krustpils Castle. In 1940, after Latvia was incorporated into the USSR, the 126th Rifle Division was stationed in Krustpils Castle. During World War II, the castle housed a German infirmary, and after August 1944, a Red Army military hospital. After the war, Krustpils Castle and the adjacent manor buildings were occupied by the central warehouses of the 16th Long-Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment and the 15th Air Army of the Soviet Army.