After a long and difficult day yesterday, Kristie needed some overdue time away from our Warrior. So today, she and our oldest two walked down to the Rig@ Ghetto and L@tvian Holocaust Museum. I was feeling much better this morning than last night, so I took our Warrior and the littlest two to McDonalds for lunch and the park to burn off some energy. After wearing them out, I met back up with Kristie at the apartment to look at these photos she had taken at the Museum.
This museum commemorates the over 70,000 L@tvian Jews and 20,000 other Jews from Western Europe who lost their lives in a concentration camp in L@tvia. It also attempts to preserve the look of the Jewish ghetto that Jews were confined to in Riga. I will let Kristie post more here about her experience... I can also get her to caption each photo below...
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| Rig@ Ghetto |
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| Contemporary photos of buildings of the former Rig@ Ghetto. To this day, about 250 buildings from the ghetto have been preserved. |
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| A Jewish elementary school |
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| Paul Mandelsam, Jewish architect and engineer |
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| The Memorial Wall. Contains more than 70,000 names. |
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| "Rachil". Some of the names of the 70,000 Jews who perished in L@tvia |
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| "Sara" |
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| Recreation of the barb wire fence that surrounded the ghetto. |
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| "Rebecka" |
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| Home school in action! |
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| The dolls, "Flying Children", are dedicated to all of the children that perished. |
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| Two story wooden house built in the middle of the 19th century included in the Rig@ ghetto. At the time of the ghetto, about 30 people inhabited this house. |
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The same two story house preserved.
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