Jelgava State Teachers' Institute building at Svētes Street 18, where in 1940-1941 members of the youth resistance were active in
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A few days after the USSR occupied Latvia, on June 20, 1940, a youth resistance organization of about 20 people was formed at the Jelgava State Teachers' Institute, which included former students of the Cēsis Teachers' Institute Viktors Daniels, Arturs Neparts, Vilhelms Pētersons, Fricis Sīpols and others. Its members gathered in secret meetings and spread anti-Soviet slogans with the slogan "Communism must die so that Latvia can live". Through Arnolds Saulīte, a graduate of the Jelgava Teachers' Institute and a teacher at Riga Primary School No. 8, it was possible to obtain information provided by foreign radio news, which indicated the imminent start of the German-USSR war. An anti-Soviet slogan was printed in 4,000 copies in the apartment of organization member Olga Rubule, which was simultaneously distributed in Jelgava, Cēsis, Valmiera, Rēzekne, Bauska, and Tukums on May 13, 1941.

After the German attack on the USSR on June 22, 1941, students of the Jelgava Teachers' Institute established contact with the Latvian Army Lieutenant Roberts Rekelis and actively engaged in military observation and maintaining communications in Jelgava. A few days later, as the Soviet occupation regime began to collapse, the youth of Jelgava took over the maintenance of order at the Teachers' Institute. Obtaining additional weapons and ammunition and taking advantage of the confusion of the Soviet security authorities, an armed group led by Fritz Balodi managed to free about 100 prisoners from the Jelgava prison who had not yet been evacuated to the USSR.