Sorella Epstein

Sorella Epstein (25 August 1931 – 15 December 1941), was a young Latvian girl, murdered because she was Jewish during the Liepāja massacres.

Sorella and her remaining family found refuge in their aunt's home, where the Nazis made an arrestation raid on 1 July 1941.

[5] Philippe Labrune[6] saw the photograph on display at the Jewish Museum of Latvia in Riga, picturing four women and a little girl hiding her face standing behind a woman, taken just before their execution during the Liepāja massacres.

He recounted this investigation in a documentary film entitled Sorella, une enfant dans la Shoah, broadcast on 8 March 2014 on France 5.

[8][9] The photo also appeared in the documentary Einsatzgruppen, les commandos de la mort by Michaël Prazan, broadcast on France 2 in 2009.

Philippe Labrune wondered who these women and this little girl were, and how these photos had escaped the destruction of the material evidence of the Holocaust systematically practiced by the Nazis at the end of the war.

[11] David Zwirzon's[12] daughter, Ilana Yvanova, director of the Jewish Museum, answered Philippe Labrune's questions during an interview.