The Bookshop - operated in the Museum lobby as well as by mail - offers Museum publications and other literature related to the occupation period. In 1999 the first yearbook was published offering historical essays, reviews, documents, also information about current activities at the Museum. Most articles are in Latvian with summaries in English.
Latvia under the Rule of the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany: Museum of the Occupation of Latvia - Riga: Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, 2005. – 215 p.
A large, colorful guide to the Occupation Museum and an overview of the history of Latvia during the loss of independence and the occupations by the Soviet and Nazi totalitarian powers (1941-1991). All texts in Latvian and English, many maps, photographs, document facsimiles, articles. Edited by Valters Nollendorfs, artistic design by Alnis Mitris. In the dedication the President of Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga writes: "This book bears witness to a fifty-year period that was one of the most tragic and painful in my country's history."
Price: Ls 12
La Lettonie sous la Domination de l'Union Soviétique et de l'Allemagne National Socialiste (1940-1991). Musée de l'Occupation de la Lettonie. –- Riga: OMB, 2007. – 235.lpp. FR It is a new recast and improved French translation of the book “Latvia under the Rule of the Soviet Union and National Socialist Germany: Museum of the Occupation of Latvia” that was first edited in 2001. All texts in French, many maps, photographs, document facsimiles, articles. Edited by Valters Nollendorfs, artistic design by Alnis Mitris. French translation by Velta Skujina.
Price: Ls 12.
Nazi/Soviet Disinformation about the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Latvia Daugavas Vanagi: Who are They? – Revisited, A. Ezergailis – Riga: OMF, 2005. – 215 p.
It is a detailed analysis of a malicious and deceptive KGB propaganda pamphlet of the 1960s that probably worked better than its pseudonymous authors had dared to hope. What is even more surprising is its reception among Holocaust scholars and prosecutors of Nazi crimes in the West. On the basis of his extensive knowledge of the subject, Andrew Ezergailis points out how the KGB booklet fed on and exaggerated stereotypes established by Nazi propaganda about the Holocaust in Eastern Europe as a spontaneous collective anti–Semitic outbreak by the local populations.
Price Ls 10
With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows, Kalniete S. - Riga: OMB, 2006 - 367 p.
Autobiographical novel by Sandra Kalniete - former Latvian Ambassador in France and UNESCO, former Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, first Latvia's Commissioner of the EU. She was born in Siberian village to parents banished for life from their native Latvia by the Soviet regime. This is an eloquent and moving testimony to her family's and the Latvian nation's fate under 51 years of occupation and an indictment of the inhuman repression by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is also a story of human survival and spiritual revival. It has become the most translated recent Latvian book.
Price: Ls 14
The Three Occupations of Latvia: : 1940 –1991 (Soviet and Nazi Take-Overs and Their Consequences). – Rīga: OMF, 2005. – 47 lpp. EN
The booklet provides a short overview of history of the occupation of Latvia as well as its consequences.
Published with support of the Parliamentary Group of the Union of Greens and Farmers of Latvia.
Price: Ls 3.
Tragedy of Maslenki - Latvia's tragedy, A. E. Feldmanis - Riga: OMF, 2002 - 355 p.
This second revised and improved edition has one chapter in English and English explanations of all illustrations. It describes in detail the unprovoked attack on Masļenki borderguard station of Latvia by Soviet special forces on 15 June 1940. Based on eyewitness accounts, documents, maps and photographs.
The Three Occupations of Latvia: : 1940 –1991 (Soviet and Nazi Take-Overs and Their Consequences). – Rīga: OMF, 2005. – 47 lpp. EN
