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In a shift, Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property

The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31.

By Shira Li Bartov December 19, 2023 8:56 am

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The statue "Latvian Beehive" in Zedelgem, Belgium. (Okupacijas Muzejs)

After controversy, Belgian town square to remove references to Latvian Nazi collaborators

A group of Latvian soldiers were interned in the small Belgian town of Zedelgem after World War II. But they were part of Nazi Germany’s SS forces.

August 11, 2021 3:11 pm

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.

December 19, 2019 1:06 pm

Latvian Presidnet Egils Levits in Riga in 2013. (Toms Norde/Wikimedia Commons)

Son of Jewish engineer elected president of Latvia

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 29, 2019 10:56 am

Haredi Orthodox mother of 5 from Jerusalem wins Riga half-marathon

By Marcy Oster May 20, 2019 3:21 pm

Nazi SS veterans hold an annual march in Latvia. Here’s how one woman is fighting back.

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 17, 2018 5:31 pm

Russian is ‘language of Zionism,’ nationalist Latvian lawmaker says

January 5, 2018 6:00 am

Youths smash dozens of headstones in Serbian Jewish cemetery

December 22, 2017 2:16 pm

Senior Latvian lawmaker says ‘smart’ Jews working to undermine country

March 18, 2016 2:42 pm

Nazi Waffen SS veterans join ultranationalist march in Latvia

March 16, 2016 7:13 am

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