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Skaidrite was born in Latvia, but was forced to flee that country when the Soviet reoccupation of the country was imminent in the fall of 1944. She had just turned six. Her parents and she spent the next 5 1/2 years in a displaced person refugee camp in Germany, in the American zone. In 1950 they had the opportunity to be sponsored by a church, which enabled them to emigrate to the United States.