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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...

October 11, 1943: Trading cigarettes for jews

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For the second day in a row, on this date in 1943, Yanis Lipke, a former dock worker in the port of Riga, Latvia, saved three Jews from the Riga ghetto by offering Latvian...