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The Beit Israel Synagogue in Jurmala, Latvia on Oct. 30, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Latvia, luxury synagogue opens in a beach resort for oligarchs

Beit Israel is only the third synagogue in Latvia and caters to some of the wealthiest Jews in the Russian-speaking world.

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 19, 2019 1:06 pm

Nazi Waffen SS veterans join ultranationalist march in Latvia

Several hundred ultranationalists, including seven veterans of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS, marched through Riga on the independence day of the Baltic nation of Latvia.

March 16, 2016 7:13 am

Jewish cemetery in Riga is desecrated

Large swastikas were found painted on more than 100 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in the capital of Latvia.

December 8, 2010 9:03 pm

Police prevent Riga pro-Nazi march

By Marcy Oster July 4, 2010 7:02 pm

Destruction of Latvian Jewry Reported by Soviet Investigating Commission

German Doctors Used Riga Jews As Guinea Pigs in Experiments with Insects

Latvian Jewish Woman Who Fled to Sweden Reveals Massacre of Riga Jews

Eye-witness Account of Extermination of Latvian Jews Given by Escaped Journalist

Simeon Dubnov, Aged Jewish Historian, Executed by Nazis in Riga Ghetto

Nazis Decide to Make Latvia “judenrein”, Deport All Jews from Riga Ghetto

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