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1. Declaration of condemnation of genocide and antisemitism by the Republic of Latvia's Highest Council
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0049 | RG Number: RG-18.001
Date:
1990 September 19
…Declaration of condemnation of genocide and antisemitism by the Republic of Latvia's Highest Council…
2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Salaspils concentration camp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.323
Date:
1940-1990
…Consists of information about the Salaspils concentration camp in Latvia. Includes documents written by Margers Vestermanis, a museum director; a…
6. Sia Hertsberg photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2009.408.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1980
…Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes…
7. Lev Aronson collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.495
Date:
1979-1994
… experiences during the Holocaust. He was born in Munich Germany, and raised in Riga, Latvia, where he became the principal cellist of the Riga Symphony before…
8. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…Emanuel “Manny” Mandel (b. 1936) was born on May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia to Yehudah (Lojos or Lewis, 1904-1994) and Gabriella “Ella” Mandel (nee…
9. Edward Anders papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0231
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1973
…!," published by a Group of Baltic Survivors in Great Britain and addressed to surviving Jews and non-Jews in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; documents and…
10. 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]
    11. 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…
    12. Sheva Vapne collection
    Document | Accession Number: 2008.167.1
    Date:
    1920-2008
    …Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Sheva Latvinsky Vapne, originally of Riga, Latvia…
    13. "Harry's Life"
    Document | Accession Number: 2006.138
    Date:
    1926-2006
    … his post-war life. Mr. Goodman discovered after the war that his parents and sister had been deported to Riga, Latvia, in 1941 and had perished in…
    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. 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…
    16. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes
    Document | Accession Number: 2004.300 | RG Number: RG-14.068
    Date:
    inclusive: 1945-1990
    Subtitle:
    Records ZUV
    Special Collection:
    Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
    …Liepāja (Latvia)…
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     … Criminal case against Hans Baumgartner, SS Senior Troop Leader (Oberscharfuehrer) of the Libau branch of the Security Police command and the Latvia Security…
    17. 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.…
    18. 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…
    19. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
    1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
    Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
    Date:
    inclusive: 1906-1985
    bulk: 1938-1953
    … received by Marion’s brother-in-law Zalkin Mandelstam from Michails Kan in Riga, Latvia. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Freyer and…
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     …. Also included are postwar letters received by Marion’s brother-in-law Zalkin Mandelstam from Michails Kan in Riga, Latvia. Photographs include prewar…
    20. Hessy Levinsons Taft collection
    Document | Accession Number: 1990.32 | RG Number: RG-10.395
    Date:
    inclusive: 1931-1980
    …Hessy Levinsons (now Hessy Levinsons Taft) is the older daughter of Jacob and Pauline (Levine) Levinsons, both talented singers who came from Latvia…
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     … who came from Latvia to Berlin in the 1920s and studied voice at the Hochschule fuer Musik. The two were married in 1928 in Latvia but returned to…