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 ...

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 ...

The reconstruction of the house of Riga ghetto (Maza Kalna street 21) is going on in the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum. The frame is already built, materials for the roof are bought, and old windows have been found in substitution of broken ones. ...

The BBC's Damien McGuinness met up with the Museum's Director Rabbi Menachem Barkahan to find out that the aim and purpose of the venture is not only to memorialize the dead but to comfort, and challenge, the living.

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This is to announce that Riga Ghetto Museum exposition is being launched on September 21st, 2010 at Maskavas 14a (entrance from Krasta srteet). More than 70 000 local Jews and nearly 20 000 Jews deported from Western Europe were executed in Latvia in the World War II. Riga Ghetto Museum ...