Mr. Belin. How long did you stay there? From 1940 on?
Mrs. Gravitis. All the time.
Mr. Belin. Until when?
Mrs. Gravitis. I worked 1 year under the communistic government as a teacher until 1941. Then I was teaching under the German occupation as a teacher until 1943. Then I came to live with Mr. Mamantov in 1943, in Riga, which is the Latvian Capital.
Mr. Belin. Up to 1940, had your husband left Petrograd to move back to Latvia with you?
Mrs. Gravitis. When I came with my daughter to Latvia in 1919, I didn't go back any more, and my husband joined me in February 1923.
Mr. Belin. And he stayed until how long? Did he stay with you in Latvia then, and what happened to him?
Mrs. Gravitis. When he came to Latvia, he was a railroad station manager immediately, or became. And I was a teacher in that town. And we lived there until 1941, until he was arrested.
Mr. Belin. Do you know what ever became of him?
Mrs. Gravitis. I don't know. Just recently I received a letter from my sister-in-law and she said that he died in Siberia and didn't know when.