Starting his rescue mission, Žanis Lipke hid the people he had helped to escape from the ghetto and labor camps in different places in Riga, on the right bank of the Daugava. The very first shelter was set up in the warehouses of the consumer society “Vienība” across the street from the cinema “Lāčplēsis”. Žanis […]

Žanis Lipke with his family before World War II Žanis and Johanna soon after their weddingJohanna in 1990Aina LipkeAlfrēds LipkeZigfrīds Lipke before World War IIZigfrīds Lipke JOHANNA LIPKE (1903 – 1990) Johanna Lipke was Žanis’s closest friend and confidante. Hiding Jews in her yard, she risked her own life as well as the lives of […]