Qualla: Jews in Latvia (museum) https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/1/h/jews-in-latvia-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Jews in Latvia (museum) https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum Jews in Latvia (museum): Introduction https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum/ Photo credit JewsInLatvia, CC BY-SA 3.0. A French filmmaker named Philippe Labrune was visiting the museum in Riga when he stopped in front of a photograph. Four women and a girl, taken sometime before 1941. The girl was perhaps ten years old. Labrune wanted to know who she was. The investigation took months. Her name was Sorella Epstein. She had been murdered at the age of ten in 1941, one of the seventy thousand Latvian Jews killed during the Holocaust. Labrune made a documentary about his search, broadcast in France in 2015. That photograph - one image among thousands in the museum's collection - represents what this museum does. It puts faces on numbers. It returns names to people who were murdered as anonymous statistics. It is the work of remembering, and it began in 1989 with a small group of survivors who refused to let the dead disappear.

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/1/h/jews-in-latvia-museum-wp/ud1h-jews-in-latvia-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Jews in Latvia (museum): Four Centuries of Latvian Jewish Life https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum/ Photo credit JewsInLatvia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Jews first arrived on what is now Latvian territory in the sixteenth century. They came from Lithuania, from Poland, from German lands - Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox in religious practice, working as merchants, peddlers, craftsmen, scholars. The community grew slowly under various ...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/1/h/jews-in-latvia-museum-wp/ud1h-jews-in-latvia-museum-four-centuries-of-latvian-jewish-life.mp3 0:06 2 full Jews in Latvia (museum): 1918 to 1941 https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum/ Photo credit JewsInLatvia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The second exhibition hall covers the interwar Latvian Republic, the period when Latvian Jewry reached its full flowering and then was destroyed. Twenty-three years of independence. Six theaters. Multiple newspapers. The Riga Jewish theater that performed in this very building, w...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/1/h/jews-in-latvia-museum-wp/ud1h-jews-in-latvia-museum-1918-to-1941.mp3 0:06 3 full Jews in Latvia (museum): Rumbula and the Riga Ghetto https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum/ Photo credit JewsInLatvia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The third hall is the hardest. It documents the Holocaust on Latvian territory. Of approximately ninety-three thousand Jews living in Latvia in 1941, about seventy thousand were murdered between June 1941 and the end of 1942. The Riga Ghetto, established in October 1941, held abo...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/1/h/jews-in-latvia-museum-wp/ud1h-jews-in-latvia-museum-rumbula-and-the-riga-ghetto.mp3 0:06 4 full Jews in Latvia (museum): The Building and Its Survival https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum/ Photo credit JewsInLatvia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The museum building has its own history. Built in 1913-1914 as the home of the Riga Jewish community, it served as a club, theater, library, and gathering place. The German occupation took it over in 1941 and used it as a German officers' club. The Soviet occupation that followed...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/1/h/jews-in-latvia-museum-wp/ud1h-jews-in-latvia-museum-the-building-and-its-survival.mp3 0:06 5 full Jews in Latvia (museum): A Small Community Today https://qualla.com/jews-in-latvia-museum/ Photo credit JewsInLatvia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Roughly five thousand Jews live in Latvia today. The community is small, aging, and quietly determined. Riga has a functioning synagogue, a Jewish school, a kosher restaurant, a community center. The Jews in Latvia Museum is part of this community - private, small, accredited by ...

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