With a deep regret we inform you about the passing of Tzipora Barkan, the widow of Chief Rabbi of Latvia Nathan Barkan, at the 95th year of life.
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In the project’s “450 years together. Jewish culture in Latvian environment – arts, music...
The International Academy of Digital Art and Science has nominated the Rabbi Barakhan’s Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum’s website for a...
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...
The Third International Conference of “Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-Communist Countries. Challenges and Opportunities” will take place...
The programme features Jewish liturgical melodies, opera arias and folk music accompanied by a symphonic orchestra.
Tickets available online at...
2014 is an important year in our nation’s military and political history. It marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Latvian Army. We give...
In cooperation with the association “Shamir” and the Baltic International Tolerance Centre, Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum is working on an...
Construction of the memorial wall to 25 000 Western European Jews, who were deported to Riga to death was completed in Riga Ghetto museum. Now names of more...
Установлены памятные таблички: „1941. gada jūnijs – jūlijs: TIEM, KAS AIZGĀJA UN NEATGRIEZĀS” (на русском:...
Aicinām piedalīties piemiņas pasākumā „Katram bērnam ir vārds”, kas tiek rīkots jau ceturto gadu pēc kārtas un ir veltīts Holokaustā...
Here you can see statistics of the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum visitors in 2011 and 2012 (regular accounting of the visitors was started in...
Dear visitors!
Part of the Museum exhibition is temporarily closed due to reconstruction, however rest of the Museum is waiting for you. Welcome!
We offer you...
House registers of Riga Ghetto serve as a significant source of information. These documents contain references to head and members of the family registered at...
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...
Andris Berzinsh was the first President of Latvia who visited Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust museum. He spent there more than an hour, looking around the...
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...
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...
Idishe bilder (Jewish pictures) 1937-1939, Riga. Illustrated magazine
in Yiddish, with signatures in German, Polish, sometimes English. 124
issues. ...
Newspaper “Hajnt” in Yiddish. 1934-1940. Everyday newspaper in Yiddish.
Publishing house “Haint”. Circulation of morning and evening issues...
