Film Projects
A feature-length documentary film.
Searching for his child's namesake, a father is led to the gripping, historic events of the early days of Hitler's final solution. Rumbula's Echo promises to be a contribution to Holocaust history. Visit the web site for Rumbula's Echo.
Web Projects
www.Rumbula.org is an educational web site and worldwide resource for information about the Holocaust and Jews in Latvia. It has more than 150 pages of text and photos organized by topic, including 400 web links to a thousand additional pages.
120,000 visitors have used Rumbula.org to date. Rumbula.org is linked to by major Holocaust, genealogy and educational organizations in Latvia, Israel and the U.S.A. Visit the educational web site, Rumbula.org.
Radio Projects
Blizzard is a vox populi radio documentary about people's reactions to a major snowstorm produced in audio verité style.
Originally recorded during Chicago's big snow of January 1979. The Blizzard web site features audio excerpts from the documentary. Visit the web site for Blizzard.
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News
Press Coverage
Chicago's WLUW-FM broadcast an interview with Rumbula's Echo writer-producer Mitchell Lieber on April 18. The interview with Lieber was conducted by Michael James on the From the Heartland program.
The Latvian Jewish Courier January 2008 issue devotes two pages to the LMG documentary film Rumbula's Echo. The Courier is published by the Jewish Survivors of Latvia.
Chicago's monthly JUF News reported "One Family's Reunion Leads to a Website for All" in its World section, in September 2003. The articles and photos are about LMG's educational web site, www.Rumbula.org, and the Lieber family story that led to its creation.
The Jerusalem Post , on December 19, 2002, reported "It's All Relative: History Uncovered". The article is about LMG's educational web site, www.Rumbula.org, and the story behind it.
Featured Project
Rumbula's Echo
feature length documentary film
An American father's genealogy search for his daughter's namesake reveals the rich tapestry of Jewish life in Latvia in the late 19th century. Following the generations leads him to the early days of the Holocaust and the annihilation of nearly all of the country's Jews, including most of his relatives. Three years after beginning research, an e-mail brings a shocking and surprising discovery about his family.
Rumbula's Echo is the first film focused on documenting the Rumbula Forest murders of 27,800, more than a third of Latvia's Jews and among the largest mass shootings of the Holocaust before the operation of the death camps. The film recounts the amazing story of Jews in Latvia before, during and after the Holocaust.
This inspiring true story illustrates that one's own family history may contain twists, turns and surprises that rival even a great work fiction, and is simply waiting to be uncovered.
For an outline of the documentary's story, photos and news about the film please visit the web site for Rumbula's Echo.
