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 120 pages of text and 170 photos, all organized by topic. It includes 400 web links to more than 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.
Contact Us
Postal Mail
Luminescence Media Group
3740 N. Lake Shore Drive
Suite 15B-3
Chicago, IL 60613 USA
Telephone
1-312-602-3302
Email
Info@LuminescenceMedia.org
News
Rumbula's Echo News
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Press Coverage
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.
110,000 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 US.
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.
