Commemorative Events at the
Jungfernhof concentration camp
to support memorial development

Latvia’s Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event, taking place on July 4th at the foundations of the Choral Synagogue in Riga, provides a historical framework for creating public commemorative events at the Jungfernhof concentration camp. Specific plans, a timeline, funding sources, and structures for memorial development are still under discussion.

On the afternoon of July 4, 2024, Karen Frostig will work with Ilya Lensky, Director of the Museum Jews of Latvia to develop a small and solemn event at the camp site. The program will highlight installing a new sign at the Mazjumpravmuiža Recreation Park, dedicated to portraying an accurate and detailed description of the camp’s brutal history. 3985 German and Austrian Jews were deported and imprisoned at the site, subjected to extreme inhumane conditions, 3836 were murdered. Scientists will return to the site in July 2024, to continue their search to find the lost mass grave. The program will be sponsored by the Latvian Council of Jewish Communities. Please contact the Museum Jews in Latvia for further details.

On July 4, 2025, plans to stage a ground-breaking ceremony at the camp site for the development of a permanent memorial at the Jungfernhof concentration camp are under discussion. This event will include dignitaries and descendants from Germany, Austria, the US, the UK, and Israel. Early ideas and structures for memorial development may also be shared at this time.