Latvia

Latvia today, with an estimated 13,000 Jews, is home to the largest Jewish community in the Baltic region.

Jews in Latvia suffered greatly during World War II, with 85% of the Jewish community perishing in the Holocaust. Today Latvia, with an estimated 13,000 Jews, is home to the largest Jewish community in the Baltic region. While Latvia had some of the highest GDP growth in Europe in the early Millennium, the economy has suffered tremendously with the global recession. 

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On March 11th 2011, Japan was hit with its most powerful ever earthquake, the fourth largest worldwide in recorded history, trigge...

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