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

Edith Brandon was born September 24, 1921 to Heinrich and Meta Blau (née Samuel). She spent much of her childhood in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), where her father ran an import/export business. Edith’s parents first met in her mother’s family home in Minden, a German garrison town where her father was stationed near the end of WWI. Edith and her mother made frequent visits to Minden ...

The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names unknown and Lea Lemchen, age 7, [2nd row on the right] were killed in the Rīga ghetto in 1941. Bluma Sandler, age 4, [donor's cousin / seated on the right] Sara Cherfas, age 3 1/2, [donor / seated in the center] and Ester Wishnevskaya, age 7 [donor's father's ...

The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse ...

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

Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, in English, written by Sofia Auguston, originally of Riga, Latvia. In the memoir, she describes life in the Riga ghetto, escaping several mass shootings, hiding her family's tallit, and being sent to Germany by boat in 1944. She witnessed the sinking of a barge of deportees, but her boat arrived in Stutthof. From there, she was forced to march to Totenhof in Sofienwald, ...

M.43 - Documentation from archives in Latvia, 1918-1946
 
 In the collection there are files selected from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga and other files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
 
 Description of the collection
 
 Included in the documentation from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga is correspondence ...

Consists of one memoir, entitled "Poppy Remembering 1939-1945," about the experiences of Sol Roth, written, transcribed, and edited by their daughter, Marion Amsellem. Mr. Roth's memoir describes his experiences in the Polish army, life in the Łódź ghetto, arrest as a thief (for which he was innocent), and deportation to various labor camps. In 1942, he was deported from the Polomones camp to Riga ...

This collection of microfilmed documentation deals mainly with the activities of the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Baltic Countries, in particular with the gathering of evidence for the prosecution of war crimes in the Riga Ghetto region during 1941-1944.<br /><br />The bulk of the material comprises authenticated statements and affidavits from eyewitnesses with covering letters. ...

During the Nazi occupation the Commandant's Office of the Security Police and the SD in Ostland was the highest institution of the German police. The commanders in Ostland were: Walter Stahleker 1941-1942, Heinz Jost 1942, Humbert Achamer-Pifrader 1942-1943, Friedrich Panziger 1943-1944, Wilhelm Fuchs 1944.