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years old. (The Russians sent her husband to Russia in 1941. In
Sweden, in 1950, news was received that he had returned to Latvia.)
In 1940/41 she was active in a leader's group of the anti-communist
underground which had radio contact with Germany. In 1944 the was
the chief of the renewed "Aizsargu" Organization. In 1914/45 she worked
for the communications (with Sweddn) section of a refugee-smuggling
organization. Later, it turned out that in this work, she had had a
Swedish Secret Service agent's number. After the capitulation, on
May 13, 1945, she and K. Frisenfeld.and other workers of the organiza-
tion were arrested near Yurkalnes. She was taken to Ventspils, where
NOVIKS himself arrived from Riga to interrogate her. She was taken to
Riga where she spent about 2i months in the Central Prison and in the
cellar of the MVD building on the corner of Brievibas iela and Stabu
"iela." (street). In August 1945, she was, freed on her promise to fur-
nish the MVD with information on the Latvian Nationalists in Riga.
Si": requested, and got, permission to go to Kurzeme until the end of
A.;.-..*ust, in order to put her affairs in order (she had left her mother
and personal property behind in Edoles county, Terandes village). In
the middle of August, she established contact with the lt. Karlis
Straumes group. In the end of August, shortly before her furlough was
to expire, she joined this group, working as a liaison officer. In the
middle of October 1945, she was arrested by the Latvian Militia at the
home of Planu, but on the way to Ventspils, she escaped. On October
31, 1945, she arrived in Gotlande, Sweden, in a fishing boat. The
Russians tried to extradite her for a criminal offense (misappropria-
tion Efcm the Aizsargu organization) but they were not successful. The
Swedish Aizsargu Organization (LOTTA's) offered her work in the archives
but she declined it and went to work in the swamp with her former forest
brothers. Later working in the metal factory at HaLlstahanuaara where
she also lives (Hallstahammar, RAISTAGARD) with her husband, the Lat-
vian Army Captain L.K.O.K. Arvids Ole who is the head of the "Daugavas
Vanagu" in Sweden.
145. Velta\Skobe
/.."-- About 30 years old. The wife of Lt. Elmer Skobe (Was married the begin-
ning of 1944 at the Kurzeme front). The &ilia& of some laid-owner in
Dabeles. After the capitulatior, she tollowed her husband who was lead-
ing alegionnaire-partisan group in the woods near Yurkalnes. She worked
as a liaison officer. After the arrest of Lt. Ziedaini in October 19145,
she was imprisoned in Ventspils by the MVD, but escaped. In October 31,
1945, she arrived in Gotland's, Sweden, After her husband was deported
... from Sweden,in the summer,of 1947, .they,ent to England ; Fran England,
'. she and her family emigred to Canadi'in-the end of July 1951, where they
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146. ElmarsiSkobe
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ONTARIO, CANADA.
(called "SIERAGIMIS" (Cheese . face?) in the woods.
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