![]() ![]() The pictures and short bios overlap the accompanying book I bought, subtitled “The Deportation of Jews from the Terezin Ghetto to Riga, 1942” (Society “Shamir,” 2014) by Elena Makarova and Sergei Makarov. Black-and-white photos and biographical information are displayed on lighted cubes at the “3,000 Fates” exhibit at the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. Just black-and-white photos, like something out of a family album, next to brief information about that person. No big maps with push-button lights, no overproduced videos, no slick production of any kind. ![]() Internally lighted cubes, suspended from the beams of the wooden ceiling, made up the majority of the stark display, inside one of the buildings. They were featured in an exhibit called “3000 Fates” that I visited last spring at the Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum. What the people in these biographical snippets had in common was that they were all Jewish, and uprooted from their lives and homes during World War II. Unable to pay the fine of 10,000 Czech crowns, he went to jail in January 1942. In March 1941, Artur was arrested for trying to sell 24 pieces of leather. Conscious of the deteriorating employment and living situation for Jews, Artur applied to emigrate to Shanghai, China. In 1940, 10-year-old Irena and 2-year-old Maria, daughters of Artur Flusser and Chana Flusserova, a warehouseman and a saleswoman, were also living in Prague. ![]() The feud started in 1929 when Jiří, then 4, went with his father on vacation to Prague, Czechoslovakia - and never return to his mother in Vienna.īoxer Harry Stein, born on January 20, 1905, possibly in Berlin, earned German championships in two weight classes in the 1920s and 1930s, and also appeared in the film “Liebe Im Ring” (“Love in the Ring”), starring Germany’s Max Schmeling, best known for his two heavyweight bouts against American Joe Louis. In late 1941, Austrian-born Jiří Mendl was a 16-year-old boy at the center of a years-long custody battle between his divorced parents, Alma Gredinger and Karel Mendl. See my Jpost about making an edible marzipan mouse in Tallinn June 10 about Salaspils, a former WWII concentration camp on the outskirts of Riga August 15 about the revitalized Rotermann Quarter in downtown Tallinn September 15 about Saaremaa’s historical buildings and the charming Ekesparre Hotel and May 27, 2020, about Saaremaa’s Bishop’s Castle, which dates to the 14th century. This is the sixth in a series of posts about my two-week trip in May 2019 to Tallinn, Estonia the country’s largest island, Saaremaa and Riga, Latvia. ![]()
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