Metadata: Society of Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 7076
- Title:
- Society of Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium
- Title (official language):
- Rīgas Ebreju sabiedriskās ģimnāzijas biedrība
- Creator/accumulator:
- Society of Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium
- Date(s):
- 1935/1941
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 41 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents of the Society of Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium (or the Society for the Promotion of the Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium and Elementary School). It includes minutes of meetings of the organising committee and the board, salary statements, membership lists, student registration cards, grade books, cash books, credit requests, expense reports, outgoing correspondence, memorial book, society charters, and a liquidation committee act.
Registration cards contain information about the students of the gymnasium and their families. For example, the collection contains the card of Eva Vater, later known as the author of several books about the Jews of Latvia and the sister of the World War II hero Yuri Vater. The card for the 1938-39 school year shows her date of birth, her home address and the address of her father’s work, how many rooms are in her family’s apartment and how many people live there, the amount of tuition fees for school and information about the family, namely the years of birth of her parents and brother and their occupations (her father Lazar was a glover master, mother Gita was a dentist, brother Yuri was a medical student).
Eva Vater was born in Riga in 1922. In June 1941 she was evacuated with a special transport of young Communists, one of the last evacuation transports from Riga. Her parents remained in Riga and were killed by the Nazis. In the first half of 1941 Eva served as a nurse in a Red Army training camp. During WWII she served as a nurse in the Red Army's 201st Latvian Infantry Division. Starting in October 1942, she served with the 43rd Latvian Infantry Division. After the war, Eva Vater graduated from medical school, and for the next forty years she worked as a physician. At the same time and, especially after her retirement in 1992, she was an amateur historian writing about the history of Latvian Jews. She published several books on the topic. Vater called her son, who was born in 1955, Yuri, in memory of her brother who died in the war. She moved to Israel since 1997. She died in 2018.
- Archival history:
- No information
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Society of Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium was registered in the Riga district court on February 21, 1936 and re-registered October 19, 1938. The school was established in 1935 on the basis of the merger of the liquidated school of S. Gorfinkel and the 3rd Riga Basic Jewish School. The Society was liquidated by the decision of the Committee on the Liquidation of Societies on 12 February 1941.
- Access points: locations:
- Riga
- Access points: persons/families:
- Vater, Eva
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova. Edited by Aaron Lasaine, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019