For over twenty years, young volunteers from all over the world have been restoring nearly extinct Jewish cemeteries across Latvia, under the leadership of the German organizer Klaus Rex. This year, the association restored the Jewish cemetery in Riebiņi, Preiļi." We were taught in German history at school about the terrible mistake we made in the past. Coming here was a truly fantastic and meaningful experience," said German volunteer Julius Elijah Schneider. Each monument in the cemetery has been mapped and numbered. There is ongoing collaboration with a translator in Israel to further document the inscriptions for the "LOT. e.V." website, allowing relatives of the deceased to locate graves from anywhere in the world. "One of our most important tasks is to make the people buried here visible. To do this, we need to know their names and the dates of their deaths," explained Schneider.

The German association has been visiting Latvia every summer for 19 years, organizing similar restoration projects in places like Pļaviņas, Aizpute, Ventspils, Krāslava, Subate, and more, cleaning a total of 13 ancient Jewish cemeteries. There are over 80 abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Latvia and many more unknown burial sites, most of them in Latgale. The mass extermination of Jews in 1941 had a devastating impact, and many cemeteries were destroyed after the war.