Databases

There are many online resources with information about the Holocaust in Latvia, including ways to identify, track, and report ancestors.

The Latvia Jewish Names Project database:

This database includes the names of the 90,244 Jews who lived in Latvia on the eve of the Holocaust. 59,500 fates have been identified so far:

https://www.names.lu.lv

The following explanation at JewishGen explains how to use the above Latvia Jewish Names Project database, with many helpful screenshots:

https://latvia.jewishgen.org/holocaust/jews-of-latvia-names-and-fates-1941-1945

The Liepāja Jews database:

This database was created before the Latvia Jewish Names Project database by Ed Anders, Z”L, and his assistants to list the names and fates of all Jews in Liepaja. It’s the only source for this data:

Project Jews in Liepāja, Latvia 1941-1945

Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names:

Yad Vashem, together with its partners, has collected and recorded the names and biographical details of over four million nine hundred thousand of the near six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices.

https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names

Institutions that deal with Holocaust research in Latvia:

Resources on Latvian Jewish history and the Holocaust:

For genealogy research:

General resources about Jewish history and the Holocaust:

Other links: