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1. Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia
1997.A.0325 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0325 | RG Number: RG-06.027
Date:
1941-1995
bulk: 1944-1966
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia…
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 … investigations and trials in Latvia, 1941-1995 1 Latvian State Archives of the Former Latvian KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war…
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2. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta and…
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 … / Administrative history Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta…
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3. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
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 … Latvia until World War 2 A Holocaust Catastrophe in 1944, circa 1880-circa 1993 4.1 Part 2: May 9, 1944 until October 8, 1956, Arrival of Eliazar, Carla…
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4. Albin family photographs
2013.472.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2013.472.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936
…Consists of 28 photographs of the funeral of Frieda Neska Gold Albin; the photographs, taken in Riga, Latvia, in 1936, show religious ritual life…
5. Wlodek Richter collection
2001.201.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2001.201.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1954
…, Latvia where Ester’s sister Rita lived. Wolf later returned to the family and in 1957 they moved to Warsaw, Poland. Wlodek fled Poland in 1970 after a rise…
6. Aron Lutwak photograph collection
2015.596.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2015.596.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1959
…The collection contains photographs and photograph postcards depicting the deportation of Jews from Coesfeld, Germany to Riga, Latvia on 10 December…
7. Jacobson and David families papers
2014.424. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.424.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-1959
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Moritz and Berta Jacobson lived in Liepāja, Latvia and had five children: Arthur, Jacob, Issie, Necha (Nanny), and Paula. Nanny remained in Liepāja…
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 … 1895-1959 Accession number: 2014.424.1 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Additional creator: David (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Extent: 0…
8. Carolina Taitz papers relating to the Rīga ghetto
1991.A.0024 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-05.004.01
…Carolina Knoch Taitz was born on Feb. 24, 1929, in Rīga, Latvia. She grew up in the countryside outside of Rīga on a small farm. She recalls the…
9. Tamara Manela and Isaac Sherman papers
2013.149.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2013.149.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1968
… Germany, Italy, and Cuba, and English translations of Izak Sermanis' (Isaac Sherman) divorce papers from his first wife in Latvia, 1938, as well as a letter…
10. Rosenwald family papers
2013.502.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 61
Document | Accession Number: 2013.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1962
bulk: 1938-1941
… parents and sister were deported to Riga, Latvia. His parents likely perished there, and Liesel was then deported to the Stutthof concentration camp where…
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 …, Latvia. Along with a small amount of correspondence from others, there is also correspondence, affidavits, and other documents regarding Fred…
11. Peter Black papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.331.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2014
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 … cards set 2, Books-Latvia – Important names and addresses, approximately 2000 45.3 Index cards set 2, [Misc. Trawniki Concentration Camp Investigations…
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  • Series 5: Subject files and source materials
    • Subseries 4: Index cards Circa 2000 [Not Digital]
      • File 14: Index cards set 2, Books-Latvia – Important names and addresses Circa 2000 [Not Digital]
    12. James Georg Lau papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1922-2013
    bulk: 1939-1953
    Special Collection:
    Save Their Stories
    …James Georg Lau (1927-2011) was born in Riga, Latvia to a German-Latvian, Harry Lau, and a Jewish mother, Betty (née Firkser) Lau. After their…
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     … diaries written by James Georg Lau between 1939- 1941 and 1944-1953, describing his life in Liepāja Latvia, the Soviet occupation, being forced out of…
    13. Kalman Linkimer diary
    2008.400.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
    Document | Accession Number: 2008.400.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1944-1945
    undated: 
    Special Collection:
    Save Their Stories
    …Kalman Linkimer (1913-1988) was born in Latvia and worked as a teacher. In 1942, Kalman was taken to the Liepāja ghetto and sent to work on a base in…
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     … ten other Jews in the cellar of Robert and Johanna Seduls’ home in Liepāja, Latvia. Kalman began his diary in 1941, but he had to leave it behind when…
    14. Serebrenik family papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2019.559.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1906-circa 2018
    …’s father died before the war. His mother Regina was deported from Vienna to Riga, Latvia on 11 January 1942 where she likely perished. Regina’s brother…
    15. Hirschfeld family collection
    2007.154 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
    Document | Accession Number: 2007.154
    Date:
    1936-1960
    Special Collection:
    Save Their Stories
    …Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia…
    16. Elkhanan Elkes letter
    Document | Accession Number: 1999.86
    Date:
    creation: 1943 October 18-1943 November 11
    … upon the Jews of Kovno after the German occupation, including deportation to forced-labor camps in Latvia, the execution of doctors and patients in the…
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     … the country. Five thousand were recently expelled, naked and destitute, to Latvia for forced labor. The rest were executed or killed in a variety of…
    17. Percy Brand papers
    2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
    Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
    Date:
    inclusive: 1920-2003
    bulk: 1945-1985
    …Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) was born on April 2, 1908, in Liepāja, Latvia, to a Jewish couple, Abram and Basia Brandt. He had one sister named…
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     … Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps…
    18. Photograph of Dora Roth after liberation
    Document | Accession Number: 1989.134 | RG Number: RG-09.060
    Date:
    creation: 1945
    … were deported to the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Latvia and then to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. Her mother and…
    19. People's Court Trial records of July 1944 against members of Germany's armed forces who had tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler
    1994.A.0097 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
    Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0097
    Date:
    inclusive: 1944-1981
    …Latvia.…
    20. Edith Hamberg Tarcov papers
    2009.298.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 3
    Document | Accession Number: 2009.298.1
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1918-2011
    bulk: 1938-1946
    … deported to Riga, Latvia on 15 December 1941. Sally was deported to the Salaspils concentration camp where he likely perished in 1942. Minna perished in 1943…
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     … all contact with them by late 1941. Sally and Minna were deported to Riga, Latvia on 15 December 1941. Sally was deported to the Salaspils concentration…