Having to leave our hometown in 1939 and not being able to return to Riga we re-founded in Hamburg?

Question

Who are we ??

Answer 1

I can only guess that you are Germans. Riga is the capital of Latvia, which was absorbed by the Soviet Union in 1939. If you were relocated to Hamburg, you were lucky. Stalin deported other Latvians to distant places in Russia, and moved Russians into Latvia. Latvia today strongly supports ethnic Letts who speak Latvian, to the exclusion of Russian-speakers.

Answer 2

Balten – Baltics, Latvian Baltics , probably Deutschbalten, who fled in September 1939 after the Stalin-Hitler pact “allowed” the return of the three proud states back into the Russian Empire (USSR). Or simply "liberal" Latvians opposed to Communism.
The entire coast from Kiel to St. Petersburg was the home of “the Balts”, Baltic people, of a mixed heritage (Germans – Pommeranian & Prussian - , Poles Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Russians, Swedes and Fins) with a single culture, a proud, industrious and civilized community of sailors, farmers and merchants, destroyed by Hitler’s mad “drive East. Centuries of common history created by the trading Hansa, the Teutonic Knights (a branch of my family) and the local “Balts”, swept away by two dictators. Coming from Riga (Latvia) , you were probably Baltendeutsche, who chose to go “home”. “Heim ins Reich” it was called. You chose Hamburg (we lived there 9 years) because it has a big Baltic community, close knit even today. Forget the war, go visit Riga, pick up the threads again it is still very beautiful as is the whole coast.