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Rivosh, Ėlʹmar, 1906-1957
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Memoirs by Rivosh (1906-1957), an assimilated Russian-speaking Jew, on his survival in German-occupied Riga in 1941-44. He wrote the first two chapters while in a hideout in 1943-44, and the last chapter, "The Cellar", after the liberation of Riga by the Soviets. Describes the transfer of the Jews to a ghetto in September 1941, the sealing of the ghetto in October, and mass murders of Jews in November and December. Rivosh's wife and two children were deported in December and perished; he and other slave laborers were forced to cleanse the emptied "bigger" ghetto after the Nazi actions. In February 1942 he escaped from the ghetto and was hidden and helped by friendly Latvians, mainly the families Ankravs and Priede. After the war Rivosh married Ludmila Znotina, a Russian friend of his first wife, who had also taken part in his rescue. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Title Memoirs / Elmar Rivosh
[editing, introduction and commentaries by Grigory Smirin
translated from Russian by Emil Tubinshlak].
Additional Titles Memoirs (Rivosh, Elmar, 1906-1957)
Contributors Smirin, G.
Muzeĭ "Evrei v Latvii"
Rizhskaia evreiskaia obshchina
Publisher Riga : JUMI [printer]
Creation Date 2008
Notes Translation of: Записки.
At head of title: Riga Jewish Community [and] Museum "Jews in Latvia".
Extent 254 p., [16] pages of plates : ill. (some color), facsims., ports
22 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990026183320205171

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