The Jungfernhof concentration camp is located four miles outside of Riga Latvia, where 3,984 Reich Jews were imprisoned, from 1941–1943. Today, it is used as a recreational park, with only a single sign offering a token acknowledgement of the camp’s existence. This project will recover lost data of the Jungfernhof concentration camp. A team of historians will be conducting archival research and interviewing descendant families to recover stories and artifacts about victims and survivors. Meanwhile, scientists will use cutting-edge technologies to identify the borders of camp, and search for the mass grave. Research results will be posted on the project website, accompanied by a timeline, maps and documentation video. The project is expected to further public discourse, linking Holocaust history with cultural heritage and questions of identity.
