Riga Ghetto 2 (continued)
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
Herman Ziering — Collected Handwritten and Typewritten Writings on Jewish Life in the Riga Ghetto under Nazi Occupation, Selections from Henry R. Huttenbach
Photo: A sign, in both German and Latvian, warning that people attempting to cross the fence or to contact inhabitants of the Riga ghetto will be shot. Riga, Latvia, 1941–43.
A sign in German and Latvian forbidding unauthorized entrance into the ghetto. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #28041. Courtesy of Emmi Lowenstern. Copyright of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Henry R Huttenbach (1930-2024) was a history professor at City College of the City University in New York and a recognized specialist in Holocaust studies. Herman Ziering and the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto hired Huttenbach to write a book relating the experiences of survivors of the ghetto as a memorial to those who had died. They entered into their first agreement for a book that was to be entitled "The Holocaust in Riga: A History of the Riga Ghetto." During this time communications between the parties broke down, and a lawsuit was filed by the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto v. Henry R Huttenbach concerning the issue of the rights of an author and a publisher where the author has granted full property rights in a work to the publisher, but where the manuscript remains unpublished as a result of a disagreement between the parties. The issue arose in the context of a dispute over publication of this historical work produced to memorialize the experiences of those Holocaust victims who suffered the horrors of the Riga Ghetto and the surrounding Nazi concentration camps in Latvia.
The following documents are based on interviews conducted by Huttenbach and manuscripts and tapes from the Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto Archive which Huttenbach had in his possession.
