Mike Getz organised a visit to Latvia and Jekabpils in July 1997. He made arrangements with Eli Goldfrid, the head of the Jewish Community in Jekabpils, and Elena Senavska, a local teacher fluent in English, who is not Jewish, to conduct interviews.

These interviews were part of a project funded by the Greater Washington Jewish Genealogy Society by way of a contribution to the Jekabpils Community. This help is gratefully acknowledged.

Elena conducted family interviews with the help of the community. Family Histories were taken from thirty families living in Jekabpils in July and August 1997. The original language was probably Russian. Elena translated them into English.

The names listed occur in the histories; at the time there were forty survivors among them. There are variations in the spelling of names; one should not place too much accent on these variations.

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