Although this is a typical Holocaust memoir, there aren't very many such accounts coming out of Latvia so it's definitely worth seeking out. The author was in Riga when the war broke out. 30,000 of her fellow Jews were lead to the nearby Rumbuli Forest, shot and buried in mass graves, but Frida Michelson survived by hiding under a pile of shoes. She spent the rest of the war in hiding with various local families, mostly Seventh-Day Adventists. Until I read this book I had no idea there was a Seventh-Day Adventist community in Latvia! They were very sympathetic towards Frida's plight as a "child of Israel" and believed God wanted them to save her and if they did not they would never be able to atone for such a terrible sin.

I'll have to look more into the Seventh-Day Adventist thing. ( )

A survivor's account of the massacres of the Jewish population of Riga, Latvia by Germans and Latvians in 1941. Only two women finally survived the slaughter of oveer 30,000 Jews in the Rumbuli forest.

This book tells the story of Frida, one of only two women to survive the massacre of over 30,000 Jews in the Rumbuli Forest. She was determined to live so that she could tell the story to others and the victims would not be forgotten.

As with any book about the Holocaust, a few parts were difficult to read, but it was definitely worth it. ( )