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Building of Latvian Saeima Republican in Riga, Latvia. Credit: Konstantinks/Shutterstock.

Latvia’s parliament passes $45 million Holocaust-restitution bill

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Latvia’s parliament passed a bill that will provide compensation for unrecovered Jewish property and funding for the country’s Jewish community, reported The Associated Press. The Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community...
A railroad boxcar or cattle car used by the Nazis to transport Jews during the Holocaust is on view at the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. Credit: Shamir Association.

New land-lease agreement prevents closure of Riga’s Holocaust museum

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The City Property Committee of the Riga City Council met on Tuesday to review the terms of a new land-lease agreement with the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. After several hours, the committee...
The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. Credit: Shamir Association.

Riga land-lease agreement change could cause closing of local Holocaust museum

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The Riga city council has informed the local Holocaust museum that according to the new land-lease agreement, it will have to dismantle the central part of its exposition and start paying a full market...
Host Levs Perlovs, writer Andrejs Hramcovse and producer Eugene Levin filming at the Daugavpills Ghetto Memorial in Latvia. Credit: Courtesy.

Digging up dirt on Latvian activities in World War II in ‘Baltic Truth’

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Eugene Levin’s connection to Latvia keeps getting deeper and more personal. A native of the Eastern European nation, he is making a documentary about a little-known chapter in history where Latvia “closed its eyes”...
The rail leading to the former Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp in Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Our view from Auschwitz: How tragedies of the past become lessons for the future

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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. – Erik Qualman Last month, we had the opportunity to delve deeper into the devastating and horrifying truths of the Holocaust. We traveled to six countries—the Czech...