Visit to Latvia - Riga and Liepaja

In the summer of 2010, I went on a visit to two cities in Latvia - Riga and Liepaja. Riga is the capital of Latvia, and Liepaja is a city along the coast of the Baltic where my grandfather's uncle and his wife - Mordecai and Dovra Falkon - were living when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941. Mordecai was murdered with other Jewish men in the summer, and Dovra was killed in mid-December with many other Jewish women at a site on the Baltic coast north of Liepaja. I wrote up my visit to both cities on my personal blog - these are links to my posts:

Visit to Riga
Visit to Liepaja