State President Egil Levitt’s Speech at the Jewish People’s Genocide Memorial Day. World War II was a global tragedy that affected Latvia mercilessly. It brought a tragedy difficult to understand and suffering for Latvians. Today we gather together to commemorate the victims of the most horrific crime of the German Nazis, the Holocaust. July 4 marked only the beginning of this tragedy, followed by mass killings in the forests of Bi?ernieki and Rumbula, and elsewhere in Latvia. However, the events of this day are symbolic – the first victims died in the burning synagogue – a house of worship, which...