Film-TV Projects
Rumbula's Echo
Seventy Years
Renewal on Peitavas
Beneath the SandWeb Projects
Rumbula.org
A worldwide educational resource with 200 pages of text and photos, and 400 web links, organized by topic and location. Visitors have exceeded 150,000. More about...
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.
Contact Us
Postal Mail
Luminescence Media Group
3740 N. Lake Shore Drive
Suite 15B-3
Chicago, IL 60613 USA
Telephone
U.S.A.: 1-312-602-3302
Latvia: +371-26-403-252
Email
Info@LuminescenceMedia.org
News
CHICAGO AREA WORK-IN-PROGRESS SCREENING: Sunday, January 29, 11 am, Highland Park Theatre. Advance tickets only.
Friends of Rumbula's Echo (join free above!) and members of participating local organizations may obtain tickets for themselves, family and friends. Click here for tickets. Tickets are free (contributions are welcome but not required).
Work-in-progress screenings held in Riga, Washington D.C., and NY. Chicago is scheduled for January 29.
Press Coverage
December 2011
Latvian Jewish Courier
Producer-Director Mitchell Lieber's speech at work-in-progress screening at annual memorial service of Jewish Survivors of Latvia.
December 1, 2011
Svet Daily Newspaper, Chicago
(Russian language)
feature on Rumbula's Echo's
Sia Hertsberg
July 5, 2011
Latvijas Avize
(national daily newspaper in Latvia)
Coverage of screening of work-in-progress of Rumbula's Echo on July 4, 2011.
July 3, 2011
National Radio Station in Latvia
Gita Umanovska, Executive Director of the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia, discussed the work-in-progress screening of Rumbula's Echo and other National Holocaust Remembrance Day activities on July 4.
November 2010
Harper's Magazine
Photos from Rumbula's Echo, used with credit. Use for book review of When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry by Gal Beckman.
Ruth L. Ratny's Reel Chicago (which covers the film industry in Chicago) reported on the documentary film, Rumbula's Echo, in Indie Focus of February 24, 2009. See
http://www.reelchicago.com/indie.cfm
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.
Web
Luminescence Media Group NFP's web sites include Rumbula.org, an educational web portal about Jews and the Holocaust in Latvia. Our other web sites support and integrate with our film-TV and radio projects.
www.Rumbula.org is an educational web site that is a worldwide resource for information about the Holocaust and Jews in Latvia. It includes first-hand accounts, 400 web links, original articles and interviews. The site features 15 Virtual Tour slide shows comprised of more than 170 contemporary and historical photographs with descriptive captions. Rumbula.org is a resource for book chapters and shorter excerpts, as well as bibliographies and video. Its content has grown 10-fold since its 2002 launch, and is organized by topic and sub-topic.
150,000 visitors have used Rumbula.org to date. More than 20,000 do so each year. Roughly 33% of visitors are from 25 countries outside the U.S.
Rumbula.org is listed in the catalog of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington D.C. Among organizations linking to Rumbula.org from their web sites are the USHMM, the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the University of Latvia Judaic Studies Centre and the Latvian Foreign Ministry's 2006 Holocaust Memorial Day Program.
Organizations and individuals involved with Latvian Jewry and the Holocaust contribute articles and photos to Rumbula.org. Most are located in Latvia, Israel or the U.S. Evolving into a more collaborative effort helps keep Rumbula.org rich, accurate and current.
Rumbula.org encourages organizations to use the web to educate through contributions of content and by creating new web sites. This was a goal of the paper, The Holocaust in Latvia and the Internet, given by the director of Rumbula.org to the Sixth International Conference, Jews in A Changing World. The conference took place at the University of Latvia in Riga, September 2006. The paper includes a case history of Rumbula.org to guide others. It is being published by the University of Latvia in Russian.
Visit the Rumbula.org educational web site.
