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1. Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0080 | RG Number: RG-18.002M
Date:
1941-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records…
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 …RG-18.002M RG-18.002M Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Riga) records, 1941-1945. 1 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Finding…
2. 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 Taitz papers relating to the Rīga ghetto…
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3. Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0180 | RG Number: RG-02.121
Date:
1991
Subtitle:
Berlin, Rīga, Stutthof
…Berlin, Rīga, Stutthof…
4. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
…Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)…
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 …Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504) RG-11.001M.05 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
5. Text only poster for a musical performance in prewar Riga
2005.567.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.567.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1937 January
Artwork Title:
Heifecs Mandolin Orchestra Concert
…Text only poster for a musical performance in prewar Riga…
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6. Mug used by a young Jewish man in the Riga ghetto and in hiding
1990.230.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.230.1
Date:
use: 1941-1945
…Mug used by a young Jewish man in the Riga ghetto and in hiding…
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7. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto
2003.407.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.407.1
Date:
creation: 1943 March 13
use: 1943 March-1945 March
…Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto…
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8. Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto
2013.474.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.474.3
Date:
commemoration: 1941 December 08
use: 1942-1945
creation: 1942
…Engraved ring made from a spoon for a Jewish Latvian boy in Riga ghetto…
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9. Edith Brandon and other workers in Riga-Muhlgraben.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 75791
Date:
1943
…Edith Brandon and other workers in Riga-Muhlgraben.…
10. Riga-Bikernieki / Deutsches Riga-Komitee, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. = German Riga Committee, German War Graves Commission.
Publication | Library Call Number: D804.175.B55 R54 2001
Published:
Kassel : Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., 2001
Availability
…Riga-Bikernieki / Deutsches Riga-Komitee, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. = German Riga Committee, German War Graves Commission.…
11. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… Sonja. Michel attended school at the University of Latvia, in Riga, where he would meet and marry Manya Hasenson. The couple married in 1927 and moved…
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 … and Sonja. Michel attended school at the University of Latvia, in Riga, where he would meet and marry Manya Hasenson. The couple married in 1927 and…
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12. Oral history interview with Elena Shpungina
Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.391.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0952
Date:
interview: 2017 July 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Riga (Latvia)…
13. Javorkovsky family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2011.348.1
…Collection of photographs documenting the Yavarkovsky family in pre-war Riga, Latvia.…
14. Heifetz family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.567.1
… to the experiences of Elja Heifecs who was imprisoned in Riga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Muhlgraben, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the…
15. Margot Stern memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-02.228
Date:
1991
…Contains a memoir about Margot Stern's experiences being sent to Riga, Latvia, from Stuttgart, Germany. A listing of family members who perished…
16. Oral history interview with Gertrude Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.22 | RG Number: RG-50.613.0001
Date:
interview: 2006 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Gertrude Schneider, originally of Vienna, Austria, describes her experiences during the Holocaust; her experiences in the Riga ghetto; and the…
17. Irma Maurer memoirs
Document | Accession Number: 2021.109.1
Date:
before 1941
…Irma Maurer and her family were forced to live in the Rīga Ghetto in 1941. After liberation, they stayed in Latvia through the 1980s. Irma immigrated…
18. Karl Schneider memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2005.81
…Consists of two copies of Karl Schneider's memoir of life in the Riga ghetto. He was a member of a transport from Cologne, Germany, which arrived in…
19. Oral history interview with Boris Bleyman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.174 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0174
Date:
interview: 1987 December 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Boris Bleyman, born on April 21, 1910 in Višķi, Latvia, discusses living in Riga, Latvia; the beginning of WWII; the Riga ghetto; the murder of his…
20. Oral history interview with Gertrude Sonnenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.50 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0050
Date:
interview: 1989 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… at age 19 and photographs of her and her father taken by the police; two rings made for her while she was in the Riga ghetto and a piece of paper given…
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 … spelling or accuracy. 00:01:38,660 --> 00:01:42,440 survived with me, two rings. 26 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:49,990 I had a friend in the ghetto in Riga and he…
21. Joseph Levy collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0353
…Containts testimony and correspondence describing Jeseph Levy's experiences in Cologne, Germany; his deportation to Riga and then a succession of…
22. 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…
23. "Children of the Holocaust"
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0061 | RG Number: RG-02.057.01
…Galina Raicin (Klebanow), a survivor of the Riga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof concentration camps, was living in Prague in 1946. In 1948, she moved to…
24. Hannelore Marx collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0371
…Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, describing author's experience of deportation from Germany to Riga ghetto and subsequent years in nearby…
25. Golstick family photograph
Document | Accession Number: 2013.406.1
…Photograph: image of Golstick family taken in Riga, Latvia in the 1930s. Photograph previously belonged to donor's grandmother, and it was the last…
26. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"
Document | Accession Number: 2004.293
Date:
creation: 1991
… and had to report to the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Around July 1943, Jews in Rīga were being transported to Kaiserwald concentration camp. In 1944, with…
27. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0307
Date:
creation: 1991
… and had to report to the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Around July 1943, Jews in Rīga were being transported to Kaiserwald concentration camp. In 1944, with…
28. 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…
29. Oral history interview with Julius Drabkin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.279 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0279
Date:
interview: 1993 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julius Drabkin, born December 4, 1918 in Ukraine, describes his parents, Mikhail and Sarah Daviolovna; living in Riga, Latvia before WWII; being a…
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 … December. WHEN DID YOU MOVE TO RIGA In 1921 we came back to Riga because the Jews moved out in 1914 and then the First World War began. WHEN THE GERMANS…
30. Oral history interview with Samuel Bradin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.163.209 | RG Number: RG-50.919.0168
Date:
interview: 1992 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Latvia--Riga.…
31. Oral history interview with Julius Drabkin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.27 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0027
Date:
interview: 1992 April 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Julius Drabkin, born in 1918 in Maritopa, Latvia, describes his parents, Mikhail and Sarah Daviolovna; life before the war when he lived in Riga…
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 … months when my parents and my two sisters -- one is killed during the war by the Nazis in Riga. Another sister who lives now in Israel is six years older…
32. Oral history interview with Avraham Shpoongin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.148 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0148
Date:
interview: 1992 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… between the Jews; studying in Rīga, Latvia in 1939; the Russians entering in 1940; Latvian history and Jewish history in Latvia; being sent to the ghetto in…
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 … Latvian high school. Describes relationship between Jews, and political life. 1.19 In 1939 he went to study in Riga. In 1940 the Russians entered and closed…
33. Sigi Ziering memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2013.300.1
Date:
creation: 1945 June 24
… brother, Hermann, were deported from Kassel in December 1941, and sent to Latvia, to the Riga Ghetto. Ziering remained in the ghetto until September 1943…
34. Oral history interview with Michael Lin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2000.37 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0131
Date:
interview: 2000 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Michael Lin, born in Riga, Latvia on September 14, 1936, describes his family and childhood; the Jewish community of Riga; the beginning of the war…
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 …Michael Lin RG-50.106*0131 September 14, 1936 - Born Mordechai Abba Lin in Riga, Latvia First memory - Russian tanks in 1940 June 28, 1941 - family…
35. Oral history interview with David Benedikt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.11 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0011
Date:
interview: 1989 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; getting transported to Salaspils camp in Latvia; being transported along with the remaining prisoners to the Riga ghetto; how only half of the trucks…
36. "Poppy Remembering 1939-1945"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.334 | RG Number: RG-02.245
Date:
undated: 
… innocent), and deportation to various labor camps. In 1942, he was deported from the Polomones camp to Riga and various camps nearby, and in 1944, was…
37. Sofia Auguston memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2000.67
Date:
1995 May 09
…Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, in English, written by Sofia Auguston, originally of Riga, Latvia. In the memoir, she describes life in the Riga…
38. Passover postcard
Document | Accession Number: 2003.292.1
Date:
1939
…The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names…
39. Oral history interview with Vera Glasberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.368 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0561
Date:
interview: 2009 January 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Vera Glasberg, born in 1912 in Riga, Latvia, describes moving to Kiev, Russia (present day Kiev, Ukraine); her childhood; returning to her family…
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 … you were born, where you grew up. Answer: Well, I was born in Riga, which at the time of my birth, which is 1912, was still Russia. It is today an…
40. Oral history interview with Eva Wollenberger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.860 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0860
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eva Wollenberger (née Stein), born on June 1, 1931 in Dresden, Germany, discusses her well-to-do merchant family; being deported to Riga, Lativa with…
41. Oral history interview with Irv Rosin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.785 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0785
Date:
interview: 1985 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Isaac Irving (Irv) Rosin, born on June 30, 1920 in Riga, Latvia, discusses being the son of a well-to-do oil and tobacco businessman; serving in the…
42. Oral history interview with Isaac Mischkinsky and Bella Mischkinsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.269.1 | RG Number: RG-50.735.0001
Date:
interview: approximately 1975
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Isaac Mischkinsky and Bella Mischkinsky describe their secret wedding at the work camp in Riga, Latvia; Isaac’s role overseeing the physical…
43. Oral history interview with Sia Hertsberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0393 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0041
Date:
interview: 1996 September 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sia Hertsberg (née Izrailewitsch), born June 8, 1927 in Riga, Latvia, describes her early family life and schooling; the Jewish community and the…
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 … born in Riga, Latvia on June 8, 1927. Did you have any other names that you are known by in your life? And tell me a little bit about your family life…
44. Oral history interview with Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1445 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1445
Date:
interview: 1983 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lewis Schloss discusses being deported from his hometown in Germany to the ghetto in Riga, Latvia in 1941; the work he performed; the benefits he…
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 … here. Okay. Can you tell me also what ghetto ghettos you were 15 in or ghetto 16 LEWIS SCHLOSS We were in--I was in Riga. was in Shoeten-sin 17…
45. Oral history interview with Hanna Marx
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.739 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0739
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp for three weeks; her family’s deportation to Riga ghetto; mass executions; her father being shot; being deported to Stutthof concentration camp…
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 … Nazi regime would soon end. In 1941, the Marx family was sent to the Riga Ghetto. Hanna describes brutal conditions – extreme cold, little food, and the…
46. L.P. Klink postcard
Document | Accession Number: 2013.412.1
Date:
creation: 1945 February
…Postcard sent to Anna Schlamm (donor's paternal grandmother) in Brooklyn, New York, from her nephew L.P. Klink in Riga, Latvia, 1946. In the postcard…
47. Eugenia Goldberg testimony
Document | Accession Number: 2013.363.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1993
… describes life under Russian occupation in Liepāja and in Riga, the German invasion, and her wartime attempts to survive. She also mentions the experiences…
48. Max Michelson photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.560.1
Date:
creation: circa 1890-1947
… the war in Riga, Latvia and in Moscow, USSR; and photographs relating to Max Michelson's emigration from Germany to the United States in 1947.…
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 … the Hirschfeld sisters posing outside, Riga, Latvia, circa 1890. Seated in the front row: Emma Hirschfeld Michelson (d. 1935) and Rosa Hirschfeld Brande…
49. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
… transported in cattle cars to the Riga concentration camp Kaiserwald. In Riga, George and his mother worked at the Tanklager (a fuel storage depot and also a…
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 …, Blankenese, Hamburg, Germeny, March 1946. 18. Photograph of a group gathered for a dinner at the home of the Akermanns, Riga, Latvia, circa 1938. Clockwise…
50. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formerly Russian Empire): General Correspondence (FO 181)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.333 | RG Number: RG-59.064
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1946
… liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities, settlement of Jews in Uzbekistan, and the situation of Jews in Russia.…
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 … and Consulates in the former Soviet Union relating to Jews, including liquidation in Riga, the joint allied declaration condemning Nazi atrocities…