About Rumbula's Echo

Five children, including three from the Grinfeld family with mother Ita-Beila, 38, are ushered to the firing squad at the trench in the Skede dunes.

Rumbula's Echo Rumbula's Echo is a series of three feature-length documentary films in which a genealogy search leads to the large-scale genocide at Rumbula and its aftermath. It is the first movie about this atrocity, which is placed in the context of the Holocaust throughout the small country, Latvia. Nearly all Jews trapped in Latvia at the time of the Nazi invasion were murdered in mass shootings (photo: Five children, including three from the Grinfeld family with their mother Ita-Beila, 38, are ushered to the firing squad at the trench dug in the Skede dunes on the Baltic Sea).

The documentary series is an outgrowth of the educational web site, Rumbula.org. It was launched in 2002 to tell the story of Jews and the Holocaust in Latvia, with a special focus on the Rumbula massacre. The portal was actively updated until 2014 and continues today as an archive so that its original content is accessible.

Rumbula.org received hundreds of thousands of visitors worldwide and was listed in the catalog of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington D.C. Among organizations linking to Rumbula.org were the USHMM, the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Latvian Foreign Ministry's 2006 Holocaust Remembrance Day Program (web and print), and the University of Latvia Judaic Studies Center.

a drawing of a tree and of the faces of individuals in the branches.

The documentary series opens with the same genealogy search that led to the creation of Rumbula.org. This family history search is interwoven with accounts of families who were murdered and individuals who barely survived.

Both Rumbula.org and Rumbula's Echo are projects of Luminescence Media Group NFP, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation.