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Engraved silver ring made from a spoon for Gerda Gerstl, 12, in March 1943 in the Riga ghetto. Gerda and her friend Hanka Spiegel had rings made for Hanka’s 12th birthday by Issi Lurie, a silversmith who worked with Hanka’s father Karl in the Luftwaffe uniform deposit. Gerda and Hanka traded their rings in fall 1943 when they were separated. Hanka kept Gerda’s ring until her liberation in March 1945, ...

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 ...

List of doctors and nurses who were dismissed or who did not appear to work, including Jewish doctors, June-August of 1941; Jewish property, including it acquisition; establishing of ghetto; transfer of Jewish schools and hospitals to the ghetto suburb; stopping of gas supply to the ghetto (1941); closing of ghetto in 1943; establishing of commission to take over the ghetto and renaming of ghetto to ...

Contains information about moving to ghetto, including vacating of apartments and information about the Jewish Committee; moving of non-Jewish shops from the ghetto territory and opening of Jewish shops in ghetto; closing of gas supply to the ghetto suburb (October 1941); statistical information about the number of ghetto inhabitants in regard to the working Jews, food rations, work payments, forced ...

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).

Riga ghetto, Final Solution.

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 ...

Definition of “Jude” and “Halbjude” in occupied Ostland and related regulations, including about, treatment of Jews. Declaration of Jewish property and movables; special forms for handing over of property;, lists of former Jewish property which now had to be considered as Ostlandseigentum in Riga, Mitau, Libau, Marienburg, Rujien, Lemsal, Walk, Wenden, Wolmar, Abrene, Daugavpils, Ludza, Rezekne; allocation ...

This collection contains various documents covering different aspects of Jewish life in the ghetto. USHMM: "Records of the Kovno Jewish ghetto administration and police". Various kinds of documents from the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto period, from the ghetto’s establishment on August 1941 until November 1943. Lists of prisoners, lists of arrested people, lists of prisoners sent to Ryga forced labour camps, ...

Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States.