THE WAR YEARS IN LATVIA REVISITED
THE WAR YEARS IN LATVIA REVISITED

Author(s): Max Kaufmann
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, History of Judaism
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: To write of the great destruction of the Jewish community at the hands of the Hitlerites is far from easy, for in doing so many nightmares are revived. The urge to write this article has been furnished by the famous words of Queen Esther: “For how could I endure to look on the evil that is to befall my people? and how could I endure to look on the extermination of my kindred ?” (Esther, VIII, 6). In a similar vein immediately after the Holocaust I answered an inner call to make a record on paper, and thus preserve for history, my recollections of what happened to Latvian Jewry during the Second World War.

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