Riga Ghetto
Entrance gate to the Riga ghetto. This photograph was taken from outside the ghetto fence. Riga, Latvia, 1941-1943.
Entrance to the Riga Ghetto. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Map of Riga Ghetto, Date Unknown
Lore Oppenheimer and Hermann Ziering - Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto (New York), 1978, Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem
“Lore Oppenheimer and Herman Kempinsky (now Ziering), co-presidents of the Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, share their experiences during the Holocaust. They address the conflicts between German Jews and Ostjuden, deportation to the Polish border in 1938, propaganda, arrival in Riga and witnessing evidence of murdered Latvian Jews, and life in Riga ghetto. Mr. Ziering conceals his face during the interview which takes place at the 1978 Society conference in New York city. Lanzmann also briefly speaks in German with Friedrich Baer, a WWI veteran frontline soldier, who attended the conference.”
Created by Claude Lanzmann during the filming of "Shoah," used by permission of USHMM and Yad Vashem