Small Riga Ghetto

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left. Food was distributed in very small amounts, and people began to hoard it
for future consumption. Already even potato peelings were being used in various
dishes, and the new "ghetto specialty", liver paste made from yeast, could
be found everywhere.
In their free time our friends and acquaintances often gathered in our room.
Because some of the men were already missing, most of the time there were
more women. All the important current affairs were aired. Among the people
who came - all of them later died, unfortunately - were Mrs. Pola Galpern,
Zila and Roma Pinnes, the lawyer Juli Berger, (Prince) Rabinowitsch, Moritz
Lange and his wife Beate, Simon Jakobsohn, Mrs. Chaikewitsch, Dr. Prismann's
wife and others. Many good acquaintances of ours also lived nearby
(Mrs. Mila Jakobsohn, Dina Genina, Dolgitzer and others).
A sign in German and Latvian forbidding unauthorized entrance into the [Riga] ghetto (United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives # 28041A)
On the last Saturday before the ghetto was liquidated, my comrade Folia Sacharow
invited my wife and me to his mother's room for a tscholent (Saturday
dinner) with all the pitschewkes (trimmings). A large company had come together
(Police Chief Rosenthal, the Ritow brothers, Mrs. Seligsohn, Abraham
Laser and others). Except for Ritow and me, not one of these people is still
alive today. My wife and I often visited the ghetto representative, the lawyer