(JTA) Karen Frostig stood on a grassy patch of land near the Daugava River outside Riga in 2007 searching for a sign, a plaque, any marker acknowledging the thousands of Jews whom the Nazis murdered in and around the adjacent woods of towering fir trees over 60 years earlier, including her Austrian grandparents.
Artist Is Fighting For A Memorial Dedicated To Jungfernhof Camp Victims
Deborah Lynn Blumberg, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Fri, 05/17/2024 - 7:44am
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