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Initiatives of the civil society
The exhibition "Holocaust Commemoration in Latvia in the Course of Times 1945-2015" was shown from July to October 2015 in the Museum “Jews in Latvia” in Riga and subsequently travelled to different places in Latvia and abroad.
The international symposium "Holocaust Commemoration in Latvian and International Context”, that took place on 3 July 2015, featured research on Holocaust commemoration, commemoration of Soviet terror, the Roma Genocide and other genocides. The presentations were given by local researchers – the representatives of the museum “Jews in Latvia” and the University of Latvia, and by international guests from “Yad Vashem” institute (Israel), “Mémorial de la Shoah” (France), and the NGO centre “Dokumenta” (Croatia).
The exhibition and the symposium were supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the Claims Conference, the Latvian State Culture Foundation, the Embassy of Germany and the Embassy of Hungary.
The Union of Latvia's Roma “Nevo Drom” is a member of the European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) and it participated in the 2013 Roma Pride event organised on 6 October 2013 in Riga.