Jewish Riga - TheCeļotājs - Touring Riga Latvia Is A Journey Through Time

“TheCeļotājs” -
Touring Riga Latvia Is A Journey Through Time
Latvija Tour Consultant Service

September 5, 2010

Come and join “TheCeļotājs” and his journey through time with the many pictures of the City of Riga Latvia in May 2010 located on “TheCeļotājs” Touring Riga Latvia Blog “Latvija Tour Consultant Service” Picasa Web Albums and “TheCelotajs” YouTube Channel.

“TheCeļotājs” has added a new play list titled: The 1941 Riga Latvia Jewish Story “The Year of Terror.”

“TheCeļotājs” will take you back to time past to the year 1941 and the terror the Jewish people suffered during the summer and autumn of 1941. We will visit the former site of the Great Choral Synagogue that was burned down on 4 July 1941 with some 300 Jews locked inside, which has a monument, dedicated to those who died on this day, located at its former site.

read more

Email contact information:

ltcs@rigaslatvija.com
TheCelotajs@rigaslatvija.net

.

Request Information - Availability Guided Tour Riga Latvia

Tours Riga Region




click here for request information form

Jewish Riga - Photos Locations and Tour Guides

More information Jewish Riga

Museum “Jews in Latvia”
Come join “TheCeļotājs” journey through time, as we visit the Museum “Jews in Latvia” located at Skolas iela Riga LV-1322 Latvia. The museum hours are Sunday through Thursday fron 12:00hrs to 17:00hrs. It is located in the second floor of the Jewish Community Building. As we enter the museum on the second floor, we will enter the first room of exhibits. Starting from left and going right, we will pictures and documents from Jews entering Latvia during the 16th thru 18th centuries. Next is Jews in Latvia in the 19th century then Jews in Latvia at the end of the 19th century. Next is Jewish Enlightenment movement. Next is Society of Jewish education. Next is the Outset 0f the Zionist Movement in Latvia. Next is the “Bund” in Latvia. Still moving to the right is the Jews in Kurzeme. Next is Jews in Riga. Next is Jews in Daugavpils. Next is Jews in Latgale. Next is Economic Activities of Jews. Next is New Jewish Intellectuals. Next you will see Jews during the Revolution

Former Riga Jewish Ghetto Area
Come join “TheCeļotājs” journey through time, as we journey back to the year 1941 and to the area where the former Riga Jewish Ghetto was located. Even though the gates, barbwire fences, watch towers and guards are long gone, the buildings, streets and the ghosts of its former occupants still remain. Were over 30,000 men women children and families were crammed into an areas no larger then a shoe box were living quarters were assigned not by rooms but by mirror meters. Where living conditions became inhuman and food became scarce. Where some people had barely enough to eat maybe a piece of bread if they were that lucky to even have that!

Rumbula Forest "Site of the Jewish Mass Killings"
Come join “TheCeļotājs” journey through time, as we journey back to November 30 and December 8, 1941 and the Rumbula Forest which is one of the biggest sites of mass executions of Jews in Europe. In November, 1941 the Nazi Administration decided to destroy all the Jews imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto. 25,000 people, including about one thousand Jews deported from Germany, were shot in two waves on November 30 and December 8, 1941. Several hundred Jews from the “Kaizerwald” concentration camp, who were used for exhuming and burning bodies, were also executed here in 1944. Near the road, at the entrance to Rumbula Forest the memorial a metal construction that symbolizes the horror of the catastrophe. This is the path on which thousands of Jews were driven to their deaths.

Jaunie ebrelu kapi "New Jewish Cemetery"
Come join “TheCeļotājs” journey to the Jaunie ebrelu kapi “New Jewish Cemetery" the only official Jewish Cemetery in Riga Latvia. It replaced the former Old Jewish Cemetery located south of the Center City area. When the Soviets reoccupied Riga following World War II they desecrated the Old Jewish Cemetery and moved all the graves to the New Jewish Cemetery and turned it into a park. There is a monument at the entrance to what is now a park. Located in the New Jewish Cemetery there is a World War II German monument to the German soldiers that were buried there.


Biķernieku Forest "Site of the Jewish Mass Killings"
Come join “TheCeļotājs” journey through time, as we journey back to the Biķernieku Forest where the largest site of mass killing and burial of victims of Nazi terror in Latvia is located. From 1941 till 1944, 35,000 people, including Latvian and Western European Jews, Soviet war prisoners, and the Nazis’ political adversaries, were killed here. In 1943, Riga Ghetto prisoners who were not transferred to the “Kaizerwald” concentration camp were killed here, followed in the autumn of 1944 by those “Kaizerwald” prisoners no longer able to work.

The Transit Camp Kurtenhof “Salaspils Concentration Camp” Memorial
Come join “TheCeļotājs” journey through time, as we journey back to the year 1941 and the Transit Camp Kurtenhof “Salaspils Concentration Camp”. Even though the gates, barbwire fences, guards, guard towers, buildings and its former occupants are long gone, all that now remains are the building’s foundation stones, gallows foundation stones, its ghosts and the spirits of its former occupants still remain. As you enter and walk around the grounds of the former Transit Camp Kurtenhof “Salaspils Concentration Camp” all one has to do is close your eyes and open your ears and mind you will hear the screams and sufferings of the former occupants who were tortured executed for minor infractions of the camp rules forced to do force labor and hard labor it was working in camp shops, peat marshes and other hard labor. Even the children who occupied the camp were experimented on in the most inhuman ways.

For guided tours, send email:  tourism@parks.lv


more photos of Riga and Latvia

More Information Jewish Riga

.

Lots of Photos of Locations around Riga Latvia - LatvijaTourConsultantService

Looking for detailed photos of tourist objects and locations in and around the Greater Riga area.

Look no further ... we have a site for you !

click here for all the wonderful photos

provided by the hard work of: LatvijaTourConsultantService

Lots of video slide shows too

.

SPECIAL OFFER - Jewish Tour Riga - May 12, 13 or 14

SPECIAL OFFER Join in group tour 

"Jewish Riga" on May 12, 13 or 14 for 50% discount

contact experienced guide Ieva Gundare - Historian, directly  for details and prices

email: ieva@rigaguide.com