Society “Holocaust-Surviving Jews from Latvia” (“Jewish survivors of Latvia”). A society of Jews from Latvia in the USA (literal translation of the name – “Surviving Jews of Latvia”). Founded in 1984 (1989?). It unites approximately 500 people of Latvian origin in 30 US states, as well as those living in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, France, Sweden, and Switzerland. In addition to Holocaust survivors and their family members, the society also includes immigrants from Latvia who moved to the USA over the past 20–30 years.\
The society was founded on the initiative of M.Kaufman, a survivor of the Riga ghetto, and initially set itself the task of raising funds to help impoverished fellow immigrants. After M. Kaufman's death, another former prisoner of the Riga ghetto – S.Springfield – became president of the society; he continues to lead it with the assistance of 9–10 council members. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the society's main task became providing assistance to surviving former prisoners of ghettos and concentration camps and to veterans of World War II still living in Latvia. The society's budget consists of membership fees and donations. The sums collected have made it possible, over many years since the 1990s, to annually present dollar cheques to each Holocaust survivor in Latvia, and to organise regular meals and food parcels for the needy at the Jewish House in Riga. The society also participated in the realisation of major projects such as the erection of a monument at the site of the burned synagogue on Gogol Street (Gogol-Shul), a three-week concert tour to the USA by the Jewish youth ensemble “Kinnor” from Riga, the restoration of the oldest Jewish hospital *“Bikur-Holim”, the creation of a Jewish school in Riga, financial assistance to Jewish organisations in other cities – Liepāja, Daugavpils, Jūrmala, and other activities.\
The society annually organises memorial Yizkor meetings for its members at the Park East Synagogue, one of the largest in Manhattan, as well as picnics by the ocean. Memorial meetings are always held in November–December in memory of the victims of the shootings of November–December 1941. As honoured guests at these meetings, various prominent figures have attended and spoken over the years, including the president of the World Holocaust Organisation Benjamin Meed, Nobel Prize-winning writer Elie Wiesel, US Ambassador to Latvia James Holmes, and others. Once every three to four years, beginning in 1993, the society, together with sister societies in Latvia and Israel, also organises World Gatherings of Jews of Latvian origin. Four such gatherings have taken place in Riga, and in 2007 one was held in Israel.\
Quarterly the society publishes for its members the newsletter “The Latvian Jewish Courier”. The society has published two books of memoirs by former Holocaust prisoners – “Muted Voices” and “The Unfinished Road”. The society's president Steven Springfield and vice-president Professor G. Schwab are members of the Historical Commission under the President of Latvia and monitor the accurate reflection of historical events in the life of Jews in Latvia, and above all of the Holocaust, in history textbooks and other publications.