YAHADUT LATVIYAH: SEFER-ZIKARON יהדות לטביה: ספר זכרון
Tel-Aviv: 'Igud yots'e Latviyah ve-Estonyah be-Yisra'el, 1952. Item #43018
First edition. 8vo. Original printed leather binding, 458 pages. Includes portraits and plates. 24 cm. In Hebrew.
Memorial book for the Jews of Latvia. Includes bibliographical references and index.
“By the beginning of 1943 only about 5,000 Jews remained in Latvia. They were concentrated in the Riga, Dvinsk, and Liepaja ghettos and in a few labor camps. The largest of the camps was Kaiserwald, near Riga, which later was designated a concentration camp.
In 1944 the Soviet army reentered Latvia, which again became a Soviet republic. Only a few hundred Jews remained in Latvia. About 1,000 Latvian Jews returned to Latvia from the Nazi concentration camps; several thousand others who had escaped to the Soviet Union during the war also survived. However, the horrendous losses sustained during the Nazi Holocaust utterly devastated Latvian Jewry.” (USHMM).
SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Latvia -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Latvia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Latvia. Ethnic relations. OCLC: 15270204.
Very Good Condition. (YIZ-23-56-CCLX-’e).
Price: $200.00