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Dear friends! From now on you can follow the news of Shamir Association and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum on our Youtube channel Shamir Latvia ...

We are happy to present you a catalogue of Shamir Society Publishing house. The catalogue, published by the Association “Shamir” over the last 15 years...

On 17 July 2019, Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum will launch several new exhibitions.
Besides the previously announced exhibition “The Jews of...

We are happy to inform you that Shamir Publishing House has just published the English version of Max Kaufmann’s book Churbn Lettland. Extermination of Jews...

Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum kindly invites you to take part in the ceremony of the official opening of the exhibition...

The 6th International Conference “The Holocaust Museums in XXI Century: Challenges and Opportunities” is over.  It took place on May 21-22, 2019 in Riga...

Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum invites you to take part in the memorial event “Steps for Life” dedicated to...

The “Perspectivart” Studio at the Riga Ghetto Museum proposes you to study the works of Jewish Modernist artists of the 20th century.

Every topic...

Application deadline for the VI International Conference “Holocaust Museums in the 21st Century: Tasks and Perspectives” is extended until 15th of March...

Dear friends, year 2018 has come to its end. Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum spent it actively. We organized...

6th International Conference
Riga Forum: Museums of Holocaust in the XXI Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Riga, 21-22 May
 
The “Shamir” Society...

On Friday, November 30, 2018, on the anniversary of the first act of mass killing against the inhabitants of the Riga Ghetto, the Riga Ghetto and Holocaust...

The Jewish New Year 5779 starts on 9th of September, at sunset.
This is not the ordinary calendar date. In the Jewish calendar chronology is calculated from...

On the 4th of July the Association “Shamir” has hold an annual event “Steps for Life”. In this day people came to the Old Jewish...

Association “Shamir” and Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum invites you to take part in the memorial event “Steps for Life” dedicated to...

The exhibition of Alexander Tarashkevich “Sunny painter” opens in Riga Ghetto Museum. Alexander – the boy with Dawn Disease who is visiting...

On the 28th of November, President of Latvia Raimonds Vejonis at the Castle of Riga presented the highest national award – Cross of Recognition –...