Foreign Ministry supports publishing of English language edition of book on Zanis Lipke
On 4 July 2007, the remembrance day of the victims of genocide against the Jewish nation, the monument to Janis Lipke is to be officially unveiled at 25 Gogola Street, the place where the synagogue once stood. The monument symbolizes the courage of hundreds of Latvian people who saved the Jewish people in Latvia from extermination during World War II.
To honour this occasion, the Foreign Ministry provided financial support for the publishing of an English language edition of the book on Janis Lipke by New York-based Jewish writer David Zilberman. Entitled Like a Star in the Darkness, the book is a partially revised and supplemented version of the two earlier editions of the book – the Latvian edition of 2005, and the Russian edition И ты это видел (And You Saw It) of 2006.
The English language edition of the book on Zanis Lipke will be presented at the meeting of the Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research in Prague in December of 2007, and will also be distributed among Holocaust research and remembrance institutions worldwide.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (04.07.2007)
Posted by Latvias Dialogues on 2007-12-06 14:40:44
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