Jewish Riga Grand Tour

Sightseeing  :  Latvia  :  Riga (city)  :  Riga  :  Jewish Tours

Riga  is the largest city in the Baltics and the capital of Latvia. Distinguished Jewish architect Mikhail Eisenstein, philosophers of the 20th century Yeshayahu Leibovich and Sir Isaiah Berlin, film director Sergej Eizenstein, world chess champion Mikhail Tal, photographer Philippe Halsman have been living here. 
In this tour you will discover not only the Old Town and Central part of Riga, but also visit objects of Jewish people history.During the tour you will learn about the Jewish history in Latvia from the 17th century until the present day. You will see the most important holocaust sights in Riga. You will visit:

• Peitav Shul which is the only one working synagogue in Riga and the only one survived the Nazi occupation;
• Riga Choral Synagogue Memorial set up at the site of the former Great Choral Synagogue which was burned down on 4 July 1941 with 300 Jews locked inside; 
• The Riga Ghetto Museum which is located in the historic area bordering the former ghetto.

You will have a walk through the former ghetto territory to the Old Jewish Cemetery. The small wooden houses of the Riga Ghetto have survived to this day.
Our tour includes the holocaust sites of Rumbula and Bikernieki forests – the places of mass killings of Jews, the places to grieve the great loss of the Riga Jewish Community.