Lidija

A person's face and eyes preserve experience better than any document or recorded memoir. Particularly if a person has experienced as much as the well-known dissident Lidija Lasmane-Doroņina. Actually, she does not even think of herself as a dissident. She received her three terms in prisons and labour camps–fourteen years in all-as punishment not for underground struggle but for daring to remain true to her principles, convictions and faith. The ideals Lidija obtained as a child–the idyllic image of Latvia as an independent country, strong family values and faith in God as a moral measuring stick for any action–not only survived two occupation regimes and their repressions,but also persevered under conditions when the humanity in the world around her seemed to have been irretrievably loss