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Tells the story of German Jews sent east for extermination, 1941-1943.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Jews of Riga
Jews from the Reich
Life in the Ghetto
Winter: 1941-1942
Spring: A Time for Hope
Education in the Ghetto
Zionist and Cultural Activities
Romance in the Ghetto
Resistance
The Second Winter
Summer: 1943
Concentration Camp Kaiserwald
The End of the Riga Ghetto
Epilogue
Appendix
Index

About the Author

GERTRUDE SCHNEIDER is the President of the PhD Alumni Association at the City University of New York's Graduate School. Professor Schneider has lectured and written extensively on the Holocaust. Among her earlier books are Mordechai Gebirtig: His Poetic and Musical Legacy (Praeger, 2000), Exile and Destruction: The Fate of Austrian Jews, 1938-1945 (Praeger, 1995) and The Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back (Praeger, 1991), and Muted Voices: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Remember (1987).