The film, Children of the Ice, portrays those who suffered inhuman conditions of deportation at the Laptev Sea but survived to return to their homeland, the European People's Party said in a press release.
Lithuanian MEP Radvilė Morkūnaitė, one of the organizers of the film screening, said: "It is our duty today to remember those who were killed and show respect those who survived."
"We have to communicate the message to future generations about the experiences that are still little-known, although they had an effect upon history of entire Lithuania," she said.
Born and raised in exile, Latvian MEP Sandra Kalnietė said that perpetrators of Communist repressions did not categorize people into men, women, children and elderly people.
"Particularly children, women and people of elderly age made more than 70 percent of those deported from the Baltic states in March 1949," Kalnietė said.
According to data provided by the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, more than 275,000 Lithuanian residents were transported to camps, or lagers, and deportated to Siberia at the start of the Soviet occupation, in 1940-1952.
