Following the war and especially after Latvia's independence in 1991, survivors and their children rebuild a small but very vibrant Jewish community with two operating synagogues in Riga. Other Jewish community institutions include a hospital, Jewish Community building, social services, Jewish Museum, and Judaic Studies Centre at the University of Latvia. The Jewish community dedicates memorials and markers at the country's more than 200 Holocaust killing sites, including Rumbula (dedication of the modern-day Rumbula Memorial is pictured above).
Three years after Lieber begins to research his great grandparents and deceased relatives, he receives an unexpected e-mail from Michael Roth, who saw the registration at the Jewish genealogy website. Roth, his sister, their families, and their mother are a branch of the Liebers thought exterminated in the Holocaust 60 years earlier. The families joyously reunite re-forging bonds that Mitchell's and Michael's grandfathers enjoyed as brothers 100 years earlier.
