Hate Vanquished, Lives Remembered

There are few first-person accounts of the Riga Ghetto. There is ‘good' reason for this: few survived. The Nazis and their just as brutal Latvian allies saw to that. Most of the Jews were rounded up, taken to the outskirts of the city, forced to the edge of ditches and massacred. The original Ghetto existed for only 35 days.Charlotte Arpadi was not a native of Riga. She had been brought up in Berlin, where her father ran a popular Hungarian restaurant. Pressures were already mounting for Jews in