Commemorative Events at the
Jungfernhof concentration camp
to support memorial development

Latvia’s Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event, taking place on July 4th, 2023 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 July 4, 2025, plans for a ground-breaking ceremony at the camp site for the development of a permanent memorial at the Jungfernhof concentration camp are under discussion. Karen Frostig and Ilya Lensky will establish a partnership to coordinate a program. 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.

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 2025, to continue their search to find the lost mass grave. The program will serve as a prelude for a permanent memorial dedicated to the victims of the Jungfernhof concentration camp.

The program will be sponsored by the Latvian Council of Jewish Communities. Please contact the Museum Jews in Latviafor further details