Žanis Lipke Memorial

The Žanis Lipke Memorial in Riga honors Latvian Jānis Lipke, who saved dozens of Jews from extermination during World War II. The museum stands on the same dead-end street as his former hiding place, an underground bunker beneath a wooden shed that he began building in 1942 and where he secretly sheltered eight to twelve people until the liberation in 1944. The memorial, which opened in 2012, pays tribute to his courageous resistance against the Nazi regime. Admission is free, and inside you'll find an exhibition supported by volunteers from the Austrian Service Abroad (Gedenkdienst) that also covers the examination of German wartime records on the persecution of Jews in Latvia.