Latvia News Agency
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LETA) — Latvia will always remember the victims of the Holocaust, said Saeima speaker Inara Murniece (National Alliance) when visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“The Holocaust is an incomprehensible tragedy of the Jewish nation and the Latvian history. The memory of the Holocaust victims will always be alive in Latvia,” said Murniece during her working visit to the US.
She said that lives of thousands of people were broken during the Holocaust in Latvia about 70,000 local Jews were killed,and about 25,000 Jews were deported to Latvia from the West and killed. She underscored that the crime against humanity has no limitation period, and Latvia remembers the Holocaust victims and those people who saved them.
Murniece presented a book “Jelgava. The Summer of 1941 Holocaust” to the museum. Historian Andris Tomasuns in the book has collected documents and publishings in relation to the tragic events in one of Latvia’s largest cities Jelgava.
Murniece is visiting the US on April 9-13, and Canada on April 13-18.