Other events in Baltic States

The Zanis Lipke Memorial will be officially unveiled in Kipsala on July 30, LETA was informed by association "Memorial of Zanis Lipke" representative Lea Liepina.

Latvian President Andris Berzins will also take part in the ceremony, that will be held at 10 a.m.

The ceremony will coincide with the upcoming visit of Israeli President Shimon Peres.

The memorial is only a couple of steps away from where an underground bunker was located during World War II. During the years of Nazi occupation, the bunker was used by Lipke to hide and in fact save many people from certain death. The memorial invites one and all to become familiar with Latvia not only as a place where thousands of Jews were killed during the Holocaust, but also where such brave individuals as Lipke risked their lives to save others.