Wartime, Warsaw Ghetto: Tracking shots of streets in the ghetto. Crowded sidewalk, alleyway. Pedestrian traffic. Bridge over an "Aryan" street. Warsaw scenes end at 01:07:47. Germans in uniform smashing a wood fence, location unknown. Riga, Latvia: Local civilians drag a (Jewish) man through the street, watched by uniformed Germans.

Carolina Knoch Taitz was born on Feb. 24, 1929, in Rīga, Latvia. She grew up in the countryside outside of Rīga on a small farm. She recalls the time up until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1941 as a peaceful time. In 1942, her family was forced to move to Rīga when the Germans invaded Latvia. She, her sister, and her mother were transported to the ghetto in Rīga shortly thereafter. Carolina ...

Traces the history of the Holocaust in Riga: the pogroms and massacres at the start of the Nazi occupation in July 1941; the decision to stop these, in order to exploit the Jews, segregated in a ghetto, as forced laborers in war industries; the massacre in November-December 1941, at Himmler's orders, of most of the Jews of the ghetto except for a few thousand skilled workers, in order to make room ...

Memoirs of a German Jew, born in Mönchengladbach in 1923, who was deported in December 1941 to the Riga ghetto, together with her husband, two weeks after they married. One week earlier 23,000 Jews who had been interned in the ghetto were massacred, and the newcomers took their place. Sherman's husband was sent to Salaspils for forced labor but, like 12,000 other Jewish prisoners, he perished there. ...

Katalog der Konzentrationslager-Dokumente, die sich bei dem International Tracing Service Allied High Commission for Germany befinden. Hrsg. v. d. Allied High Commission for Germany (HIOG), Bad Arolsen 1951. Catalogue of Concentration Camp Records held by the International Tracing Service, ed. Allied High Commission for Germany, Bad Arolsen 1951. In der Nummernkartei (x.x.x.5) wurden alle Hinweiskarten ...

Documentation of the municipal committee for planning and construction in Riga, 1887-1944
 
 Planning and construction documents, and materials regarding the management of buildings belonging to the area of the Riga Ghetto (the data is taken from the official list of real estate properties in Riga for the year of 1939).

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Mug used by Issak Drizin in the Riga Ghetto in Latvia and in hiding. In July 1941, Germany declared war on the Soviet Union and invaded Latvia which had been annexed by the Soviets in 1940. A vicious pogrom was unleashed upon the Jews of Riga by German killing squads joined by roving gangs of Latvian fascists. In October, Isaak and the other Jews were forced into a ghetto. In fall 1943, the Germans ...

The Main board and staff of the city of Riga was established in July 1941 and in July-September appears in the documents as Riga City Board, the Central Riga City Board, and later as the Main board and staff of Riga city. Hugo Wittrock was appointed the city’s mayor.

7 printed finding aids are available at the reading room.

1 printed finding aid, paper printed is available at the reading room.

USHMM RG-26.014M

Official documentation of the German occupation authorities in Latvia, from the Westermann Collection in Riga
 
 The Westermann Collection includes official documentation of the municipal administration of the Rigas Prefekturas (Riga Prefecture) Police; official documentation of Einsatzgruppe A active in Latvia in 1941; orders and instructions by the Sicherheitspolizei to the SD and SS in ...

Copyright Holder: Charlotte Baum

Riga ghetto, Final Solution.

Consists of two copies of Karl Schneider's memoir of life in the Riga ghetto. He was a member of a transport from Cologne, Germany, which arrived in Riga in December 1941. He remained in the ghetto for the majority of the war, and discusses the establishment of schools and religious practices within the ghetto.

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

M.43.LVVA - Documentation from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga
 
 This sub-record group contains files selected from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga and files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington DC.
 
 Description of the sub-record group:
 
 The documentation of the State Historical Archives of ...

Transfer of Jews and Jewish institutions to ghetto area; acquisition of former Jewish institutions; information about Jewish labour and rules for payment; excluding of the Jewish school at Lačplēša Street 141 from the ghetto territory and its transfer to the Russian primary school; lists of Jewish and German emigrants writers.

USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Riga) records)

Instructions for treatment of Jews, including information about who was considered a Jew; wearing of David stars registration, mixed marriages and children; identity cards for Jewish women married to Aryans; Jewish property, including a form for declaration of property; treatment of foreign Jews; printed edition about Organization of the Administration in the Occupied Eastern Areas, which included ...

USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records)

Three printed finding aids are available at the reading room.

description of 310 files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room