In the sixth film of the project about the Shoah in the Former Soviet Union, filmmaker Boris Maftsir set out on a journey to uncover the memory of the Holocaust in Latvia, the land of his birth.
The drawers of memory open as the search exposes the complex history of the Jews of Latvia: before, during and after the Holocaust. First drawer: An attempt to compile a full and detailed list of all the Jews living in Latvia on the eve of WWII; Second drawer: The work of Latvian “Guardians of Remembrance”; Third drawer: The personal drawer of Boris Maftsir.