On November 29 at a Holocaust Memorial in Rumbula, Latvia, a special commemorative rally took place. This event marked the anniversary of the mass murder of Jews who were imprisoned in the Riga ghetto.
The Rumbula Forest is one of the largest sites of the mass extermination of Jews in Europe. On November 30 and December 8, 1941, an estimated twenty-five thousand people were shot to death here, including Jews who were confined in the Riga ghetto and other Jews who had been deported from Germany and Austria.

At the gathering, Mr. Benjamin Kayem, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, gave a moving presentation, as did Israel's ambassador to Latvia, Mr. Chen Ivri Apter. The crowd also heard words by Chief Rabbi of Latvia Mordechai Glazman, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary serving in the country.

Following a speech by Mr. Ilya Lensky, the director of the Museum of the History of Jews in Latvia, students from the S. Dubnov Jewish Day School performed a song they had composed on the theme of the Holocaust. The gathering ended with memorial prayers, recited by Rabbi Shneur Kot and Rabbi Yosef Shafro.