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)
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)
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)
The concert “Mir singen Yiddish” took place on September 18 at 18:00 in the White Hall of Riga Latvian Society house (Merķeļa Street 13) and on September 20 at 18:00 in Daugavpils music college (Kandavas Street 2a). Followers of Nechama Lifshitsayte, famous singer and fighter for Jews rights in Soviet Union, from Israel performed folk and author songs in Yiddish, as well as Ghetto and Jewish Resistance songs. Participating Gali Davidov, Rose Klein, Irina Kopitova, Regina Dricker, piano, and Martha Smith (Norway). Traditionally Riga concert is only for women. (More)
Exhibition of three Hamburg and Moscow artists Roman Feierstein, Lubov Simonenko and Anna Simonenko is to be opened on September 12, 2011 at 16:00 in Latvian State History archive. The exhibition is historical as well as artistic one. That is exhibition-dialogue, dialogue of epochs, of cultures and of spaces. Exhibition lasts till October 28, 2011. (More)
On September 2, 2011 from 12:00 till 16:00 we read names of 16 000 Jewish children of Latvia and Western Europe who were killed in this country in the Holocaust. Each participant was able to 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)
On July 20, 2011 participants of the international contest of young pop singers “New Wave 2011” together with the head director of the contest Aleksander Revzin and the general director Aleksandr Rumjancev visited Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum. Rabbi Menachem Barkahn told to visitors of the museum about history of Jewish people and their fate during the Holocaust. He also emphasized the necessity to remember terrible events of the war and the Holocaust, and encouraged the young generation not allow to forget about it. Visitors of the museum who became acquainted with expositions lied flowers and lit memorial candles. Aleksander Revzin teaches to participants of the contest that it is very important not only to improve the talent, but also the responsibility for society and history. (More)
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On the Holocaust Memorial day – July 04, 2011 – Association Shamir and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum organized memorial march Steps for Life through former ghetto territory. The honorary guests of the march were as follows: the Minister of Tourism of Israel Mr. S. Misezhnikov, the Minister of Culture of Latvia Ms. S. Elerte, the Chairwoman of Jewish community of Munich and Vice-president of World Jewish Congress Ms. Ch. Knobloch, Dr. Sam Kliger, Director, AJC Russian Affairs, pastor D. Bittner from Germany with group of Nazi descendants, President of the registered charitable association cantor Baruch Chauskin. (More)
By the initiative of Jewish Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Holocaust museum special limited edition of the postmark in memory of the Holocaust in Latvia was issued. Drawing by Joseph Kuzkovsky. The postmark is available at Association “Shamir”, Riga, Stabu 63, ph. +371-67270827. Income will be directed to the development of Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum. (More)
