The core group of seven was ambushed and killed by Soviet security forces (VChK/Cheka agents) in 1948

members of the staff of the former anti-Soviet partisan group “Latvijas Tēvzemes sargu apvienība” (LTS(p)A) — a Forest Brothers-style resistance unit in Latvia after World War II. The core group of seven was ambushed and killed by Soviet security forces (VChK/Cheka agents) in 1948, with the last survivor (Aloizs Vaivods) killed in 1954. The photo was taken in autumn 1947 in the Krieva swamp area of Līvi parish.