{"id":83,"date":"2022-01-23T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latvians.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2024-12-07T20:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T01:52:36","slug":"in-memoriam-professor-andrew-ezergailis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latvians.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/23\/in-memoriam-professor-andrew-ezergailis\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam, Professor Andrew Ezergailis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We were deeply saddened to hear of the the passing yesterday of Latvian Holocaust scholar Andrew (Andrievs) Ezergailis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:20% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/latvians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/photo-AE-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Andrievs Ezergailis<\/strong>&nbsp;(1930\u20132022)\u2009\u2014\u2009Historian, Doctor of Humanities, foreign member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latvian%20Academy%20of%20Sciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Latvian Academy of Sciences<\/a>, awarded the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Order%20of%20the%20Three%20Stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Order of the Three Stars<\/a>&nbsp;4th Class. Born in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vies%C4%ABte%20Municipality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vies\u012bte Municipality<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latvia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Latvia<\/a>. As the Soviet army reinvaded Latvia, his family fled to Germany\u2009\u2014\u2009the only other option being the dangerous attempt to cross the Baltic Sea to Sweden. In 1949, the family emigrated to the United States. After completing his doctoral studies, Ezergailis was appointed to a professorship at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ithaca%20College\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ithaca College<\/a>&nbsp;(New York state) where he lectured on Russian and contemporary European history. Ezergailis subsequently concentrated on the Holocaust in German Nazi-occupied Latvia, devoting countless articles and numerous books to the topic, including his seminal&nbsp;<em>Holocaust in Latvia, 1941\u20131944<\/em>&nbsp;(1996).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ezergailis&#8217;s passion for following documents and documented facts wherever they led inspired discussion and provoked both champions and critics of his unyielding quest to strip away propaganda and hearsay to arrive at historical truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the death of his wife Inta, he edited and published a four-volume anthology of her poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Peters curates Andrievs Ezergailis&#8217; official Holocaust scholarship web site, at<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/holocaustinlatvia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">holocaustinlatvia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were deeply saddened to hear of the the passing yesterday of Latvian Holocaust scholar Andrew (Andrievs) Ezergailis. 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