Over 500 people participated in a memorial march in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day in Latvia on July 4.
Called “Steps for Life,” the event was organized by the local Jewish community in cooperation with the World Congress of Russian Jewry and Jewish Community Council of Europe.
Members of Jewish communities of Latvia were joined by diplomats, and delegations from Germany, Israel and the US for the event.
They walk commenced at the Old Jewish cemetery, through the Riga ghetto area, and ended at the Big Choral Synagogue, where a memorial and candle lighting took place in the memory of all the Jews who perished in the holocaust.
More than 70,000 Latvian Jews were killed during in the Holocaust. The flourishing Jewish community was exterminated. More than 20,000 Jews from throughout Western Europe were deported to Latvia and killed there as well.
R’ Shmulik Aronov
Its nice to see you.
we always appriciate all the good work you do in the former soviot union!
If only people would understand how much is done behind the scenes
A Yasher Koach
yes where is Rabbi Glazman?
hey, those look like spotlight’s scarves
Go chabad riga
R’ Shmulik Aronov
Its nice to see you.
we always appriciate all the good work you do in the former soviot union!
If only people would understand how much is done behind the scenes
A Yasher Koach