Steps for Life

On July 04, 2010, the Holocaust Memorial day in Latvia more than 500 people participated in the memorial march "Steps for Life". The event was organised by religious community "Shamir" in co-operation with World congress of Russian Jewry and Jewish community Council of Europe. Members of Jewish communities of Latvia, diplomats, delegations from Germany, Israel and USA, "Maccabi" members and Riga inhabitants participated in the event. They walked from Old Jewish cemetery through Riga ghetto area to the Big Choral Synagogue memorial  and burnt candles there in memory of killed Jews.

More than 70 000 Latvian Jews were killed in Latvia in the Holocaust. The flourishing Jewish community was exterminated. More than 20 000 Jews from Western Europe were deported to Latvia and killed here. The tragedy can’t be forgotten.