A 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 — and then receives an email from relatives who died in the Holocaust.
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 single day mass shootings of the Holocaust. Reactions to Rumbula were a factor in the Nazi shift to death camps as a more impersonal and less emotional method of mass murder.
The documentary places this genocide within the setting of the Holocaust in Latvia, during which Nazis and collaborators murdered in excess of 98% of Latvian Jews living in the country. The documentary's weave of archival film and photos is narrated by those who were there as viewers see Latvia's Jewish community wiped out in six months in 1941. Rumbula's Echo is an opportunity to document Rumbula and other pivotal events in Holocaust history in film, while the few remaining survivors can tell the story behind historic photos and silent film images.
Rumbula's Echo begins with a narrative device, an American father's true genealogy search for his new daughter's namesake, his great grandmother from Latvia. That leads him and the film's viewers to the documentary's central story - the amazing saga of Jews in Latvia before, during and after the Holocaust.













