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Riga Ghetto Museum
Riga is among the few European cities where former Nazi camp territory has remained unscathed by architectural change; and now the Ghetto Museum is open here. However, this is just the first phase of construction launched by the Hebrew congregation "Shamir" in cooperation with Riga City Council. The museum was established with the aim of reminding one and all of those terrible historic events in Latvia. The museum is expected to also become an education and culture centre, sending a message of tolerance and mutual respect.
It is estimated by leading Holocaust researchers that about 70,000 Latvian Jews perished in the Holocaust. The totality and speed with which this mass murder was achieved meant that many families were completely destroyed with no one left to mourn or even inquire about the dead. As a result, disturbingly few of those killed have been identified. The purpose of the Latvia Holocaust Jewish Names Project is to recover the names and identities of these members of the Latvian Jewish Community who perished and to ensure that their memory is preserved.
On October 25, 1941, all Jews in Riga were relocated to the Maskavas Forštate (Moscow Forshtat) suburb. As a result, about 30,000 Jews were concentrated in the small 16-block area. The Nazis fenced them in with barbed wire.
Riga Ghetto Museum
Riga is among the few European cities where former Nazi camp territory has remained unscathed by architectural change; and now the Ghetto Museum is open here. However, this is just the first phase of construction launched by the Hebrew congregation "Shamir" in cooperation with Riga City Council. The museum was established with the aim of reminding one and all of those terrible historic events in Latvia. The museum is expected to also become an education and culture centre, sending a message of tolerance and mutual respect.
It is estimated by leading Holocaust researchers that about 70,000 Latvian Jews perished in the Holocaust. The totality and speed with which this mass murder was achieved meant that many families were completely destroyed with no one left to mourn or even inquire about the dead. As a result, disturbingly few of those killed have been identified. The purpose of the Latvia Holocaust Jewish Names Project is to recover the names and identities of these members of the Latvian Jewish Community who perished and to ensure that their memory is preserved.
On October 25, 1941, all Jews in Riga were relocated to the Maskavas Forštate (Moscow Forshtat) suburb. As a result, about 30,000 Jews were concentrated in the small 16-block area. The Nazis fenced them in with barbed wire.