В воскресенье 3 июля, в Риге прошло ставшее...
Марш живых – 2016: отчет
Night of Museums 2016 is ending… A lot of interested people. We want to thank our visitors for interest and enthusiasm!
Par izglītības projektu “Rīgas geto stāsti bērniem”
Holokausts ir viena no sāpīgākajām mācībām, ko devis pasaulei 20. gs. Tomēr, lai pasargātu mūsu bērnus un mazbērnus no pagātnes asiņainajām kļūdām, mums ir jādalās ar viņiem arī šajā pieredzē. Bet rodas jautājumi: kā pastāstīt par tik...
Wagon-exhibition “Berlin-Riga. One way ticket” is a result of sucsessful colaboration between Riga’s Ghetto Museum with German and Austrian museums and archives. It keeps the history of 25 000 Jews from the Western Europe who were departed to Latvia. Story of a great lies, these people were promised a life: a hard...
Astronomic spring in the Riga Ghetto museum – flow of people
The Fourth International Conference “Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-communist Countries: Challenges and Opportunities” will take place on May 16-17, 2016 in Riga, Latvian Academy of Sciences. The conference will emphasize importance of the Holocaust remembrance in small European countries with...
Memorial plaques „1941. gada jūnijs – jūlijs: TIEM, KAS AIZGĀJA UN NEATGRIEZĀS” (in Eglish: „June – July, 1941: TO THOSE WHO NEVER CAME BACK”) were installed.
The main aims of the association „Shamir” and the Riga Ghetto museum are: preservation and developement of Jewish ethnic identity in Latvia...
STHH project is the continuation and the result of 10 years of working with educational programs for schoolars and educators, relying on the history of the Holocaust. This time project is aimed to give a deeper knowledge for social sciences teachers from Latvia, Lithuania, Belorus about the history of Holocaust and genoside...
13 октября в Осло, в музее Blank Space состоялась лекция и презентация выставки “Евреи в Латвии”. Экспозиция будет открыта с 19 до 31 декабря 2015 года в рамках проекта “450 лет вместе...
Dear friends, year 2015 is coming to its end. Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum spent it actively. We hosted more than 57 000 visitors since opening, organized exhibitions, seminars and concerts, published books, showed our exhibitions in Bremen and Oslo, and opened school of teaching of...
International contest “My family story and me” is over. We’ve got more than 50 art works, the jury selected 20 pieces for the exhibition in Riga Ghetto museum. The winners will receive their diplomas and presents on the opening of the exhibition on December 15, 2015 at 15:00. The contest was a co-operative...
The exhibition “Shtetl. A world – lost, but not forgotten” presents an overview of Feliks Mostowicz’s art. The exhibition is to opened in Riga Ghetto museum on November 19, 2015. Feliks Mostowicz, born in 1947 in Kazakhstan, is a famous Polish artists, whose works are presented in the Polish Museum of...
The exhibition of lightening cubes dedicated to 3000 Jewish deportees from Terezin ghetto to Riga in 1942 was successfully transported and installed in Rathaus Bremen. Exhibition attracted more than 8 000 people. Exhibition were officially open by Mayor, public figures and opinion-makers of German town. It’s our honor to...
The exhibition “Jews in Norway and Latvia. Unexpected crossings” is to be opened in Riga Ghetto museum in the project’s “450 years together. Jewish culture in Latvian environment – arts, music, education” Nr.EEZLV04/GSKA/2013/02 boundaries on October 13, 2015. 4 PM.
It explores a fascinating...
The exhibition “Jews in Latvia” is presented in Oslo Jewish museum on October 20, 2015 at 18:00 in the project’s “450 years together. Jewish culture in Latvian environment – arts, music, education” Nr.EEZLV04/GSKA/2013/02 boundaries. It will be shown in gallery Blank Space...
On November 26, at “Music Factory A Nice Place” club in Riga, Citadeles iela 2, in the project’s “450 years together. Jewish culture in Latvian environment – arts, music, education” Nr.EEZLV04/GSKA/2013/02 boundaries took place a concert of norwegian klezmer-band “Urban...
Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum invites you to visit the exhibition “Missing Identity” of the artist Silvia Levenson. The exhibition will open on September 9 and will last until September 27. The exhibition is devoted to the problem of militarization. Silvia Levenson...
Annual March for Life in memory of the Holocaust victims takes place on July 03, 2015 at 10:00 at Old Jewish cemetery (Riga, Liksnas 2/4, crossing of Lomonosova and Liksnas street)
Let’s save memory together! Come and commemorate!
Observing the museum exhibition pay Your attention to the exhibition “East of Auschwitz. Mapping the Holocaust in East Central Europe” that opened at 1st of August. This unique collection of 60 maps collected by 27 researchers from 5 countries (Germany, Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland Czech Republic) using archives, museum...
In the project’s “450 years together. Jewish culture in Latvian environment – arts, music, education” Nr.EEZLV04/GSKA/2013/02 boundaries an exhibition by Latvian artist Joseph Kuzkovski was open to public in Riga Ghetto museum (Maskavas 14a, Riga) on May 26 – June 29, 2015. Joseph Kuzkovski...
You are kindly welcome to attend the opening of the exhibition of German artist Dagmar Calais in Riga Ghetto museum on may 14, 2015 at 14:00. With the work, produced for the exhibition in Riga, Dagmar Calais abstains from a facile presentation of the paintings on a wall. Instead, numerous portraits, painted on small canvases...
The International Academy of Digital Art and Science has nominated the Rabbi Barakhan’s Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum’s website for a Webby Award and the Webby People’s Choice Award. This puts the Riga Ghetto Museum in the running for the two most coveted awards in the Internet.
Help us bring...
It is a great pleasure to present you our new website for Riga Ghetto Museum created on a pro-bono basis by Olson agency, USA. New website is launching on the Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 27, 2014) Please see on: www.rgm.lv
Through a groundbreaking mix of Google Street View, recently unearthed archival photos and...
Cory McLeod will be giving a presentation about the creation process of the RGM website at the Latvian National Library. The presentation will take place March 11 at 12 o’clock on the 11th floor of the Latvian National Library.
The Third International Conference of “Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-Communist Countries. Challenges and Opportunities” will take place in May 2015, in Riga.
Key topics:
• Memorialization of the Holocaust in post-communist countries.
• The history of Holocaust Education as a part of the activities...
An exposition of 23 Latvian Synagogue models had been created. The exposition includes models of Liepaja, Jelgava, Daudavpils, Smiltene, Talsi, Ventspils, Karsava, Piltene, Bauska, Tukums, Jaunjelgava, Krustpils and Riga synagogue, as well as Choral Synagogue at Gogol str.
The program we develop now includes preparation of...
And for first half a year 2014 we were visited by more people than in all of 2013!
The programme features Jewish liturgical melodies, opera arias and folk music accompanied by a symphonic orchestra.
Tickets available online at www.bilesuserviss.lv
Information project@shamir.lv or
After the memorial event “Steps for life” in Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum we have opened the memorial wall with 25000 Jews’ names, which were deported to Riga during the Holocaust from different European towns and were killed here. Survived just few hundred people. The opening were attended by the Major of...
The opening of Wall of memory of Western Jews deported to Riga during the Holocaust and the exhibition “3000 fates” of deported Jews from the Theresienstadt to Riga ghetto in 1942, took place on the May 8th, 2014 at the Museum of the Riga Ghetto and the Holocaust (Riga, str. Maskavas 14a). This event has been attended...
