Jewish museum

We began our Jewish/family journey with the trip to the museum of Latvian Jewish History. The building was originally a Jewish theatre and community centre and then became a propaganda centre for the Soviets. It was returned to the Jewish community around 1990. The top floor now contains the museum which consists of a room with walls filled with photos and documents covering about 200 years of Jewish history, including the obligatory Holocaust documents which were as shocking as ever, but of course here in the Baltic the Nazis would herd their victims into the forest before shooting them. Photos of these moments were all too visible. We spoke to a couple of elderly sisters who spoke about their family history; their father was a Jewish Russian soldier who helped to liberate Riga in 1944 and then stayed. We then got help identifying addresses from family documents I had with me and then directions to our next destination, a ghetto museum.