Holocaust Memorial in Rumbula Woods

Photograph of the Holocaust monument in the Rumbula (Rumbuli) Woods erected by the Soviet government. The word ‘Jews’ is not mentioned, in its place, there is ‘Soviet Citizens’. Riga, Latvia, Post-World War II.

Location: Riga, Latvia

Attribution: IHMEC: courtesy of Boris Kacel

Accession Number: 2006.75.31

Donor Bio:

Boris Kacel (Katzel) grew up in Riga, Latvia. Throughout the duration of the Holocaust, Boris was held captive in five concentration camps: Kaiserwald, Vaivare, Sonda, Stutthof, and Buchenwald. He escaped Buchenwald and survived with provisions he had hidden away in a backpack. He came to the U.S. on a ship named the Ernie Pyle and was received by his aunt in Chicago on April 1, 1947.

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Children of Survivors seated in front of a memorial to the six million murdered Jews, c. 1948.