Ghetto museum

And then here we were. One moment we were among warehouses by the river bank and then they next corner there was an opening for the museum. In a very large courtyards were long rows of Jewish documents and photos of the period of Nazi occupation. In the centre was a wall of 70,000 names of those who perished. Among those were the Kiels and Bhans. Names I had on the documentation I bought with. Our immediate ancestors had left for England but who knows whether these families were close relatives. I've always wondered and this is as close as we'll likely get. It felt close enough. To see these names opposite photos of the killings was perhaps too much. He museum also had a ghetto house that had been moved to this location and filled with period furniture. But perhaps the biggest shock of all was a series of photographs of the houses that still remain from the ghetto. They are all over the district and the first house we see is 22 Daugavpils the modern address for the last known address of a relative who died in the 20s. I couldn't quite believe it was right there in front of us. The first picture. But now it wasn't enough. I wanted to see the real thing.