Jewish cemeteries in Riga

There are documented two Jewish cemeteries in Riga , the capital of Latvia :

The area of ​​the old Jewish cemetery (Latvian: Vecā ebreju kapsēta ) was the first piece of land in Riga that the Jews living there were able to acquire. The cemetery was inaugurated in 1725. Even before the First World War , there was no longer enough space.

In the 1920s a new cemetery was built in Smerlis. The cemetery in the Moscow district was now called the "Old Jewish Cemetery". On December 8, 2010 the (new) Jewish cemetery was desecrated: around 90 gravestones were smeared with white swastikas .

literature

• Grigory Smirin (Ed.): Latvia. Synagogues, Jewish Cemeteries, Burial Places of the Holocaust Victims. Map of Memorable Places of Jewish History. Shamir, Riga 2005, ISBN 9984-9835-1-X (scale 1: 600,000), (in English, Russian and Latvian).
• Meyer Meler: Ebreju kapsētas Latvijā. = Jewish Cemeteries in Latvia. = Evrejskie kladbišče v Latvii. Šamir, Riga 2006, ISBN 9984-19904-5 .

See also

• List of Jewish cemeteries in Latvia

Web links

• Latvia, Riga: Middle Ages, Art Nouveau and Jewish Riga
• Riga (Latvia) on jewische -gemeinden.de, accessed on June 26, 2020
• Riga, the Old Jewish Cemetery on memorialplaces.lu.lv, accessed June 26, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingrid and Hubert Schneider: A trip to Riga. In: Bulletin of the Bochum Citizens' Association. Bochum, September 2006, No. 10 ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Riga: Skinheads arrested. tt.com on January 13, 2011
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.