Riga ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum
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[Wikipedia] Jews in Latvia (museum)
The Museum “Jews in Latvia” (Latvian: Muzejs Ebreji Latvijā) is located in Riga, Latvia. The main tasks of the museum are the research and popularisation of History of the Jews in Latvia, as well as the collection and preservation of evidence regarding the community of Latvian Jews from its beginning until the present time. The museum was founded in 1989. It is part of the Latvian Jewish community and one of the few private museums in Latvia accredited by the state.
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In Search of the Jewish heritage in Riga | History of Jewish Diaspora |Enchanting Latvia
Museum Jews in Latvia ''Muzejs Ebreji Latvija .wmv
May 16, 2010
Riga, Latvia
Come join TheCeļotājs journey through time, as we visit the Museum Jews in Latvia located at Skolas iela 6 Riga LV-1322 Latvia. The museum hours are Sunday through Thursday from 12:00hrs to 17:00hrs. It is located on the second floor of the Jewish Community Building. Museum Jews in Latvia
The Jewish World: Latvia
The Holocaust brought almost a total destruction to the Latvian Jewish community, but Jewish life never ceased in the country. Arkady Suharenko, President of the Latvian Jewish community, presents the picture today.
[Wikipedia] Jews in Latvia (museum)
The Museum “Jews in Latvia” (Latvian: Muzejs Ebreji Latvijā) is located in Riga, Latvia. The main tasks of the museum are the research and popularisation of History of the Jews in Latvia, as well as the collection and preservation of evidence regarding the community of Latvian Jews from its beginning until the present time. The museum was founded in 1989. It is part of the Latvian Jewish community and one of the few private museums in Latvia accredited by the state.
The Jewish life in Liepaja | History of Jewish Diaspora | Enchanting Latvia
Once upon a time, there was a thriving Jewish community which was moderately tolerated by their Christian neighbours and friends in this cosy Latvian coastal town. Many of them were industrious businessmen, artisans and scholars, others served their pious congregations exclusively, working in various religious institutions or schools.
Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum
Riga Latvia Has One Jewish Synagogue - Peitav-Shul
A Synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer and the center of a community's religious life. The Nazis destroyed all the synagogues in Riga with this exception and Peitav-Shul, completed in 1905. Newly reopened, Peitav-Shul was constructed in Art Nouveau style and words of the prophet Isaiah are inscribed above the entrance...My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations...
Jews in a Changing World, Olga Miheloviča, Jewish Movement in Latvia (1970s-80s)
Olga Miheloviča (Latvija) Disidentisms un ebreju kustība Latvijas PSR (1970.-1980. gadi)
Olga Miheloviča (Latvia) Dissidentism and Jewish Movement in Latvian SSR (1970s-80s) [in Latvian]
Ольга Михеловича (Латвия) Диссидентство и еврейское движение в Латвийской ССР (1970-80-е) [на лат. яз.]
10th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia and the contribution of Jews to Latvia's founding and development, April 26-28, 2017, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6. Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
10. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas valsts simtgadei un ebreju ieguldījumam valsts dibināšanā un attīstībā, 2017. gada 26. - 28. aprīlis, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6. Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
10-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 100-летию Латвии и вкладу евреев в становление и развитие государства, 26-28 апреля 2017, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6. Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
Jews in a Changing World, Margers Vestermanis, The rescue of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Latvia
Marģers Vestermanis (Latvija) No ebreju glābšanas vēstures nacistu okupētajā Latvijā (1941-1945): glābēju motivācija
Margers Vestermanis (Latvia) The rescue of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Latvia (1941-1945): the motivation of rescuers [in Latvian]
Маргерс Вестерманис (Латвия) Из истории спасения евреев в оккупированной нацистами Латвии (1941-1945): мотивация спасителей [на лат. яз.]
10th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia and the contribution of Jews to Latvia's founding and development, April 26-28, 2017, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6. Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
10. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas valsts simtgadei un ebreju ieguldījumam valsts dibināšanā un attīstībā, 2017. gada 26. - 28. aprīlis, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6. Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
10-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 100-летию Латвии и вкладу евреев в становление и развитие государства, 26-28 апреля 2017, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6. Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
Jewish life in Kovno, Riga and Lvov - Lithuania/Latvia/Poland 1929 -
Scene di vita quotidiana nei quartieri ebraici di Kovno,Riga e Lvov(piu'tardi ribattezzata dai tedeschi Lemberg) nella Lituania,Lettonia e Polonia del 1929.Amatoriale inedito.
Jews in a Changing World, Serafim Seppala, Rabbi Kook from Griva
Serafim Seppala (Finland) Orthodox dialectic of opposites: Rabbi Kook from Griva [in English]
Serafims Seppala (Somija) Ortodoksālās dialektikas pretstati: rabīns Kuks no Grīvas [angļu val.]
Серафим Сеппала (Финляндия) Ортодоксальная диалектика противоположного: раввин Кук из Гривы [на англ. яз.]
10th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia and the contribution of Jews to Latvia's founding and development, April 26-28, 2017, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6. Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
10. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas valsts simtgadei un ebreju ieguldījumam valsts dibināšanā un attīstībā, 2017. gada 26. - 28. aprīlis, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6. Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
10-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 100-летию Латвии и вкладу евреев в становление и развитие государства, 26-28 апреля 2017, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6. Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
''Beginning of the 1941 Terror Against the Jews in Riga Latvia'' Part II of III.wmv
The Riga Ghetto continued.
Then we will move onto the Rumbula Forest located 12 kilometers southeast of Riga located in six massive graves were 25,000 Jews, including about one thousand Jews deported from Germany, who arrived in Riga by Railway Box Cars on 30 November 1941 unexpectedly, were immediately taken from the Railway Box Cars to Rumbula Forest were they were murdered that same day. The murdered were held in two waves on 30 November and 8 December 1941. In 1944 the Nazis used several hundred Jews from the Kaiserwald Concentration Camp, to try and hide from the world what they had done here, were used for exhuming and burning the bodies that were murder here in 1941, were also executed here.
Moving further southeast of Riga we will come to the former Transit Camp Kurtenhof Salaspils Concentration Camp located 18 km southeast of Riga and east of Maskavas iela.
Set in a pine forest southeast of Riga, near the town of Salaspils, Kurtenhof Concentration Camp was the bigger of two camps built in or near the Latvian capital for civilians and Jews from the occupied territories. Set in a clearing a few hundred meters from the Riga-Salaspils railway line, served first as a transitional camp and later, by personal order of Himmler, as the site of mass executions.
Salaspils Concentration Camp was established in October 1941 till its liberation in October 1944. The Nazi bureaucracy drew distinctions between different types of camps. Officially, Salaspils was a Police Prison and Work Education Camp Polezeigegfängnis und Arbeitserziehungslager to house 15,000 deported Jews and political prisoners. Approximately 12,000 persons went through the camp during its existence. 2,000 to 3,000 people died here.
Jews in a Changing World, Svetlana Amosova, Jews and their ethnic neighbors in Latgale [RUS]
Svetlana Amosova (Russia/Estonia, anthropologist, expert on Jewish ethnography) “Specificity of memories of the Jews and their ethnic neighbors of Jewish life in Latgale in the 1920-1930s” [in Russian]
9th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” devoted to the 25th anniversary of the restoration of the Jewish community in Latvia, November 24-25, 2014, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6.
Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
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Svetlana Amosova (Krievija/Igaunija, antropoloģe, speciāliste ebreju etnogrāfijā) “Ebreju un viņu etnisko kaimiņu atmiņu specifika par ebreju dzīvi Latgalē 1920.-1930. gados” [krievu val.]
9. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas ebreju kopienas atjaunošanas 25. gadadienai, 2014. gada 24. - 25. novembris, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6.
Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
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Светлана Амосова (Россия/Эстония, антрополог, специалист по еврейской этнографии) “Cпецифика воспоминаний евреев и их этнических соседей о еврейской жизни в Латгалии в 1920-1930-х гг.” [на русском языке]
9-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 25-летию восстановления еврейской общины Латвии, 24 – 25 ноября 2014, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6.
Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
Jews in a Changing World, Presentation of recent publications in Latvian Jewish studies
Presentation of recent publications in Latvian Jewish studies: Svetlana Kovaļčuka (Latvia), Eli Valk (Israel), Marina Gehta (Latvia) [in Russian and Latvian]
Jaunāko izdevumu par Latvijas ebreju vēsturi prezentācija: Svetlana Kovaļčuka (Latvija), Eli Valks (Izraēla), Marina Gehta (Latvija) [krievu un latv. val.]
Презентация новых изданий в Латвии по иудаике: Светлана Ковальчук (Латвия), Эли Валк (Израиль), Марина Гехта (Латвия)
10th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia and the contribution of Jews to Latvia's founding and development, April 26-28, 2017, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6. Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
10. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas valsts simtgadei un ebreju ieguldījumam valsts dibināšanā un attīstībā, 2017. gada 26. - 28. aprīlis, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6. Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
10-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 100-летию Латвии и вкладу евреев в становление и развитие государства, 26-28 апреля 2017, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6. Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
Jews in a Changing World, Ivar Brod, Prominent Latvian Jews in the US
Ивар Брод (США) Выдающиеся Латвийские евреи в Соединенных Штатах: несколько полузабытых биографий
Ivar Brod (USA) Prominent Latvian Jews in the US: a few semi-forgotten biographies [in Russian]
Ivars Brods (ASV) Ievērojami Latvijas ebreji ASV: dažas pusaizmirstas biogrāfijas [krievu val.]
10th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia and the contribution of Jews to Latvia's founding and development, April 26-28, 2017, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6. Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
10. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas valsts simtgadei un ebreju ieguldījumam valsts dibināšanā un attīstībā, 2017. gada 26. - 28. aprīlis, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6. Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
10-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 100-летию Латвии и вкладу евреев в становление и развитие государства, 26-28 апреля 2017, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6. Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
Jews in a Changing World, Karina Barkane, Synagogues in Latvia after World War II
Karīna Barkane (Latvija) Sinagogu saglabāšanas problēmas Latvijā pēc Otrā pasaules kara
Karina Barkane (Latvia) Preservation problems of the synagogues in Latvia after World War II [in Latvian]
Карина Баркане (Латвия) Проблемы сохранения синагог в Латвии после Второй мировой войны [на лат. яз.]
10th International Conference “Jews in a Changing World” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Latvia and the contribution of Jews to Latvia's founding and development, April 26-28, 2017, Riga Jewish Community Center, Skolas 6. Organizers: Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Museum “Jews in Latvia”.
Conference program:
10. Starptautiskā konference «Ebreji mainīgajā pasaulē», veltīta Latvijas valsts simtgadei un ebreju ieguldījumam valsts dibināšanā un attīstībā, 2017. gada 26. - 28. aprīlis, Rīgas Ebreju kopienas nams, Skolas 6. Organizatori: Latvijas Ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome, Latvijas Universitātes Jūdaikas studiju centrs, muzejs “Ebreji Latvijā”.
Konferences programma:
10-я Международная конференция «Евреи в меняющемся мире», посвященная 100-летию Латвии и вкладу евреев в становление и развитие государства, 26-28 апреля 2017, дом Рижской еврейской общины, Сколас, 6. Организаторы: Совет еврейских общин Латвии, Центр изучения иудаики Латвийского университета, музей “Евреи в Латвии”.
Программа конференции:
RUMBULA A JEWISH TRAGEDY IN LATVIA
The killings in Rumbula (Riga/Latvia) in two days end of Nov. and on December 8, 1941, saw 28,000 Jews killed by bullets in just two days. This video shows the enthusiastic reception of the German troops in the Riga streets, the first beatings of Jews, the ghetto and one picture of the Jews marching to their death in Rumbula. At the end, pictures of people in Riga worshipping SS Latvian volunteers on March 16, 2012 and two stills of the actual Rumbula Memorial Site. The music is my composition Rumbula on the flute as recorded in October 2013
Saruna ar Marģeru Vestermani par Žani Lipki un filmu Tēvs Nakts
Masu slepkavības Rumbulā 77.gadadienas priekšvakarā, 29. novembrī, notika sarunā muzejā Ebreji Latvijā par Žani Lipki un citiem glābējiem, ka arī par filmu “Tēvs Nakts”.
Pārdomās par filmu un tās nozīmību gadā, kad mēs svinam Latvijas simtgadi, padalījās vēsturnieks, Holokausta izdzīvojušais Dr.hist. Marģers Vestermanis un sarunas dalibnieki.