New touring exhibition of the Riga Committee on display from 6.11. in the Falkenhof.
Rheine. Starting Sunday, Nov. 6, the current traveling exhibition “Riga – Deportations, Crime Sites, Remembrance Culture” of the German Riga Committee can be seen in the Falkenhof in Rheine. The alliance of cities has made it its task to remember the fate of the people deported to Riga.
Meanwhile 70 cities belong to it. Rheine is one of them, because also from here Jewish Rheinenserinnen and Rheinenser were deported to Riga. In Riga, they were crammed into the ghetto and camps in as well as outside the city and forced into forced labor. In mass shootings, up to 25,000 Jewish people were murdered in Riga, mainly in the Bikernieki forest. Already before that, on “Riga Bloody Sunday” (November 30, 1941) and in the days following, about 26,000 Latvian Jews had been shot.
The exhibition of the Riga Committee informs about the history of the deportations to Riga. It describes the former camps, the execution sites and exemplarily some main perpetrators. In addition, it presents selected places of remembrance in the places of origin of the German Jews.
Within the framework of the Riga Symposium from November 3-5, the exhibition will be open to the participants of this event. After that, it will be open to the public. The exhibition will remain on display at Falkenhof at least until November 16, 2022.
The exhibition can be visited during the regular opening hours of the Falkenhof, Tiefe Str. 22, 48431 Rheine. (Tue – Sat 2pm – 6pm, Sun 10am – 6pm, and for groups on request) Admission is free.
Photo: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.