Marģers Vestermanis [SEP] occupation
Marģers Vestermanis
Marģers Vestermanis (born 18 September 1925 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian Holocaust survivor, historian, founder and former director of the museum "Jews in Latvia".
Life.
Life Youth and World War II.
Marģers Vestermanis was born in Riga into a Latvian Jewish, German-speaking family as the youngest of three sons of a merchant and manufacturer. He attended the Riga German Primary School No. 10 until 1933, and was later a student of the private, German (until 1934
) and Latvian-language Jewish private gymnasium Ezra. In addition to that Vestermanis received religious education from a rabbi at the age of 6 until he turned 15.
His father had most of his possessions confiscated by the Soviet authorities after Latvia's occupation in 1940. Upon the arrival of the Wehrmacht after the Nazi occupation of Latvia in 1941, the family was taken to the Riga Ghetto, where Marģers had to work as a homemaker, assisting the underground resistance movement of the ghetto at the same time. All members of