Continuation of  Melanija's Vanaga's Life story: a dugout home in neighbour Amatas school

The Amata school unveiled a new commemorative object, which at once will also serve as an educational tool: a dugout home. The dugout home was built by the "foster children" of Melānija Vanaga, according to her accounts of living in such a house in Siberia. Encouraged by their teacher, Ingrīda Lāce, these "foster children" have traveled to that place of torture in Tyukhtet for already the third summer. They always return with new stories and testimonies about the hardiness and big-heartedness of the people there. They also tell of the beauty of Siberia, which cannot be blamed for the deportees' misery.

History lessons can be held in the dugout home, which, alongside the memorial bearing the names of deportees, is now another place where students can remember the pain of those people and honor their memory.

Podgornaja28, imitation of dugout home in Tyukhtet	Ruta Vanaga together with doughters Aija and Ieva	Torch made in Siberian style	Melanija had to live in much more primitive place than this

105th birthday of writer Melanija Vanaga	In the hall of Amata's school	Memorial place for those taken to Siberia

Photo by Guntis Eniņš