Infrastructure 2020-2021

The Deportees. Image found online (2021).

The Deportees. Image found online (2021).

  • Grow website, develop plans for a timeline and format for a gallery presentation of victims and survivor stories

  • Produce first fully vetted essay about the Jungfernhof concentration camp, co-authored by Richards Plavnieks and Karen Frostig, for United States Holocaust Museum’s encyclopedic directory of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 6, edited by Alexandra Lohse. Anticipated publication date, 2023.

  • Interview Peter and Sam Stern, two living survivors of the Jungfernhof concentration camp, December 30, 2020 (Karen Frostig).

  • Deliver a series of workshops to partnering Institute of Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. 

  • Create comprehensive overview of Latvian history in relation to the Jungfernhof concentration camp (Richards Plavnieks).

  • Create tours of Jewish memory in Riga for European audiences that include visits to the Jungfernhof concentration camp (Ilya Lensky).

  • Create video tour of camp site for the website (Ilya Lensky and Nikolajs Krasnopevcevs)

  • Search national archives for photo documentation of reconnaissance missions performed by German WWII Pilots, to support a non-invasive search for a mass grave at the Jungfernhof site (Evan Robins).

  • Transfer names of deportees from five transports—Berlin, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Hamburg—from jpeg format to excel for easy access and transfer to other operations (Kabren Levinson)

  • Create plan for opening events to coincide with the 80th anniversary of deportations from Greater Germany to Riga in partnership with the German Embassy in Latvia. (see Deportation Commemoration project)

  • Develop concept for an interactive virtual 3-D tour of the Jungfernhof concentration camp site for the website (H. Uzumkaya)

  • Conduct initial non-invasive explorations of the site in search of a mass grave. Ground penetrating radar indicates the location of a mass grave, clearly visible under radar as a large trench, 20 x 20 meters, inserted 10 meters below the surface. (Prof. Richard Freund and team of geospatial scientists, see search for mass grave).