The Second International Conference "Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-communist Countries: Challenges and Opportunities" will take place on May 27-28, 2013 in Riga, Latvian Academy of Sciences (the 3rd floor). The conference will emphasize importance of the Holocaust remembrance in small European countries with overlapping memories. It will also focus on hidden resources for Holocaust remembrance and research in these countries, on the peculiarities of the Holocaust education and unknown pages of Resistance movement and heroism in ghettos and concentration camps. Session on informal Jewish education as a part of museums\' activities is also included to the program. (More)
Memorial event "March for Life" will take place in Riga on June 30, 2013 in memory of killed Jews - citizens of Latvia and Europe. Start on Old Jewish cemetery, Liksnas Str. 2/4 at 10:45. After that we will walk through the Riga Ghetto area to the Great Choral synagogue memorial. Let\'s save these memories together! (More)
Association „Shamir” has published the book of prof. Erik Jekabson „Aizmirstie karavīri – ebreji Latvijas armijā 1918 – 1940” [Forgotten soldiers – Jews in the Army of Latvia 1918 – 1940]. Author used documents of the Latvia’s State history archive which have never been used before and has collected information about Jewish soldiers in the Army of Latvia: officers, sanitary officers (doctors, vets, pharmacists), military officials and he has also researched questions of the participation (More)
Soldier of the Latvian army Leiba Slavjaciski, who served in the Latvian army in 1930 - 1931, was one of 953 Jews, who lived in Tukums. He attended synagogue in Tukums, studied with rabbis Eliezer Lichtenstein and Levy Lichtenstein, also with cantors Berel Kalman and ritual slaughterer Haim Itzhak Slavjaciski, who was his uncle. Slavjaciski family were famous Latvian rabbis. (More)
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Dear friends! We are wishing you a happy celebration of Pesach! One of the most important Jewish holidays, which remainds us the story of the birth of the Jewish people, chosen by the Almighty! Our people were born at the watershed between slavery and freedom, at the foot of a fiery mountain, on the way from Egypt to Holy Land! We wish you a happiness, harmony and prosperity! (More)
From now on, everyone who is following newsfeed of Association "Shamir" will have a chance to read the newspaper "Gesharim" of Riga\'s Religious Jewish Community. "Gesharim" in translation means "Bridges" - "Bridges" to friendship, understanding and commiseration... "Bridges" is that what unites! We will begin with "Gesharim" No. 4, published in april 1995: images/file/Gesharim%2095%20-1.pdf (More)
Dear friends! We wish you a very happy and joyful Purim! Delicious food and drink, masquerades, joyous feasts, toasts of "lechaim", songs in praise of the Almighty who preserves His people - this is what Purim is about. (More)
On February 28, 2013 at 17:30 in Association "Shamir" (Riga, Stabu St. 63) a seminar presentation "Modeling of good solutions for different systems" (based on ideas and researches of Bert Hellinger) will be held by Dr. Psych. Lyuba Kogan - coach of system-phenomenological access. You are welcome to join us. Places are limited. Please register by project@shamir.lv or by phone +371-67270827, +371-67791784. Seminar is for free, seminar language - Russian. (More)
Ida Goldshmit: "I began to learn a seamstress... and in addition to my work I have always been fascinated by embroidery and knitting. I have embroidered and knitted both larger and smaller things. It was my hobby ... I do not knit now, I sew just a little bit." Dear Ida! We wish you good health and peace of mind! We also invite you to take part in this project. In our Studio we will help you to create your own video or photo presentations. Let\'s save these memories together! Information: 67270827. (More)
Club "Yiddische mame" offers you to watch the presentation dedicated to the 90th anniversary of our Rahil Shtein. We also invite you to take part in this project. In our Studio we will help you to create your own video or photo presentations. Lets save these memories together! Information: 67270827. (More)
On September 7, 2012 from 12:00 till 16:00 we will read names of 16 000 Jewish children of Latvia and Western Europe who were killed in this country in the Holocaust. Each participant can come to the scene of the Vermanes park in Riga and read names of children. We will remember each and every one. The recitation takes place in September, as these children could also go to school. (More)
First time in the town! Concert of Psoy Korolenko on September 02, 2012 in the \"Artelis\" theater, Blaumana 32. Tickets - www.bilesuserviss.lv. Psoy Korolenko, Russian/Jewish multilingual poet-singer, known as a \'wandering scholar\' and \'singing professor\'. His unique one-man show balances between folk, klezmer, rap, sound poetry and intellectual cabaret/comedy. As a writer and scholar he is known for his interest to otherness, diaspora, territory, minorities, and borderlines. (More)
Born in Daugavpils, Max Kaufmann (1897-1987) was a businessman who lived in Riga and was incarcerated by the Nazis with his wife and teenage son in the Riga ghetto. After the murder of his wife and son, Mr. Kaufmann was transported to the Kaiserwald concentration camp and subsequently, with other prisoners, to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Following this ordeal he was forced to join the "death march" to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he was liberated on May 1, 1945. (More)
Mark Marjanovski memorial concert took place in Riga on May 10, 2012. Mark Marjanovski’s tangos are forgotten and he himself perished in Buchenwald in 1944. This concert is an another attempt to save Latvian Jewish heritage. Performing Latvian singer and actor Richard Leper and Nikolay Bochkun, piano – Tom Juhnevich and Jury Kasper, idea and supervision – Marina Mihailets. (More)
New season of master-classes with aunt Bluma will starts on February, 5, 2012 at 11.00 in Association “Shamir” (Stabu Str. 63 - Gefilte fish, Forschmak and Tzimmes. (More)
Jewish society and association “Shamir” issued new calendar for 5772 devoted to the variety of Jewish cuisine. Besides recipes you will there letters of Hebrew alphabet by Hamburg artist Roman Feierstein, a number of words in Hebrew and first pages of books by Latvian Rabbis. The calendar is issued in English, Latvian and Russian. This calendar will become one more step to save heritageof Jewish community of Latvia. Orders by e-mail shamir@shamir.lv (More)
Jewish Association “Shamir” Latvia passed through year 2011 successfully. About 5000 people visited Riga Ghetto museum. More than 2000 attended events of Jewish Culture Festival. Football game was dedicated to the memory of killed in the Holocaust. About 3000 pages of Encyclopedia “Jews of Latvia in World War II” are ready to be published. In July we had March for Life and in September we read names of killed Jewish children in the Riga park. We organize international conferences in Riga and Purim celebration in tiny Jewish community of Rezekne. We publish Jewish calendars and postmarks. We support Jewish exhibitions in small towns of Latvia and tell Latvian students about intellectual Resistance in Terezin camp. (More)
On September 21, 2011 we celebrate first birthday of Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum. About 4 000 visitors attended the museum this year. Amongst them were President of Latvia Andris Berzinsh, minister of culture Sarmite Elerte, Riga mayor Nil Ushakov and vice-mayor Andris Ameriks, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Douglas Davidson, participants of the music competition “New wave”, ambassadors, businessmen and politicians. (More)
The part of Latvian Jewish encyclopedia “Jews of Latvia in the WWII” was issued in 5 volumes. The authors the edition are young Latvian historians. the goal of the project is to compile and popularize information about the Holocaust and WWII in Latvia. The edition includes following articles: (More)
Concert of liturgical music, dedicated to New Jewish year took place on September 14, 2011 at 19:00 in the Great Hall of Riga Latvian Society house (Merķeļa Str. 13). Participating cantor Baruch Finkelstein and the male group of choir “Balsis”, conductor Ints Teterovskis, accompanied by Jevgeny Hazdan, piano. Jewish liturgical and folk music was performed. (More)
