Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from the German "Reich"...
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Rumbula massacre (section Creation of the Riga Ghetto)
death camps. About 24,000 of the victims were Latvian Jews from the Riga Ghetto and approximately 1,000 were German Jews transported to the forest by...
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Eduard Roschmann (redirect from Butcher of Riga)
1977) was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities...
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The Holocaust in Latvia (section Riga Ghetto)
addition, thousands of German and Austrian Jews were deported to the Riga Ghetto. The German army crossed the Soviet frontier in the early morning of...
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Herberts Cukurs (category Riga Ghetto)
Cukurs played a leading role in the atrocities that were committed in the Riga ghetto in conjunction with the Rumbula massacre on 30 November 1941. After the...
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Rudolf Lange (category Riga Ghetto)
planning and carrying out the murder of 24,000 Latvian Jews from the Riga ghetto which occurred on 30 November and 8 December 1941. This crime has come...
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2016-03-15 at the Wayback Machine Museum, Riga Ghetto. "The Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum". Riga. Retrieved 22 April 2018. Miner, Samuel (July...
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Jungfernhof") or a little later in a Nazi-delineated part of Riga, which later became known as the Riga Ghetto. The camp site was prepared in October 1941 by Soviet...
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Tamāra Zitcere (section Riga Ghetto's List)
Holocaust, the Riga Ghetto's List, and the list of victims of the Riga War. Tamāra Zitcere grew up in Latvia and begun her professional career at Riga Stradiņš...
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Friedrich Jeckeln (category Riga Ghetto)
Security Service (SD) men rousted the people out of their houses in the Riga Ghetto. The people to be murdered (typically Jews) were organised into columns...
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remaining part of the ghetto) was filled with Jews transferred to the Riga Ghetto from other ghettos, mainly from the Kovno Ghetto. In June 1942, 15 people...
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Riga ghetto". Many transports were taken straight from the Riga railroad station to execution sites in the Rumbula and Biķernieki forests near Riga,...
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massacres. They also participated in the mass slaughter of Jews from the Riga Ghetto and several thousand Jews deported from Germany, as guards at the Rumbula...
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during World War II. In this capacity, he played a role in setting up the Riga ghetto and was implicated in the extermination of Latvian Jews. He committed...
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most of the remaining Jewish people were put into ghettos. In November and December 1941, the Riga Ghetto became crowded and to make room for the imminent...
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ghettos was also met with armed struggle: Kraków Ghetto Łódź Ghetto Lwów Ghetto Lutsk Ghetto Marcinkonys Ghetto Minsk Ghetto Pińsk Ghetto Riga Ghetto...
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Riga (/ˈriːɡə/ REE-gə) is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia. Home to 605,273 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's...
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used his position to smuggle Jewish workers out of the Riga ghetto and camps in and around Riga, whom he concealed with the aid of his wife Johanna until...
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Frida Michelson (category Riga Ghetto inmates)
survived Rumbula” which records the Holocaust in Latvia, her life in the Riga Ghetto and how she managed to survive the massacre in Rumbula forest. She was...
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The burning of the Riga synagogues occurred in 1941, during the first days of the Nazi German occupation of the city of Riga, the capital and largest...
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Hans-Adolf Prützmann (category Riga Ghetto)
Reichsminister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, wanted to confine the Jews to ghettos, confiscate all their property and work them as slave laborers in support...
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the ghetto, of whom 2,000 were from Brno and the rest from Prague. The first transport from Theresienstadt left on 9 January 1942 for the Riga Ghetto. It...
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2019, p. 60. Schneider, Gertrude, Journey Into Terror: The Story of the Riga Ghetto, p. 25, Westport, Connecticut, US, Praeger, 2001; ISBN 0-275-97050-7...
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Estonian footballer Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977), Austrian Nazi SS Riga ghetto commandant Eduard Selling (1834–1920), German mathematician and inventor...
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the Babi Yar massacre, to liquidate the Riga ghetto. Jeckeln selected a site about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Riga near the Rumbula railway station, and...
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Albert Sauer (category Riga Ghetto)
Sachsenhausen. In 1943, Sauer was involved in the destruction of the Riga Ghetto, which involved executing or deporting thousands of people (mostly Jews)...
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Hinrich Lohse (category Riga Ghetto)
Hans-Adolf Prützmann many of the responsibilities for the enslavement and ghettoization of the Jews of Latvia. When he fled the Reichskommissariat Ostland in...
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story and learning that Tauber had been in the Riga Ghetto commanded by Eduard Roschmann, "The Butcher of Riga", Miller resolves to search for Roschmann whom...
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Dünamünde Action (category Riga in World War II)
approximate ghetto and concentration camp populations of German Jews in Riga and the vicinity were: Jungfernhof concentration camp, 2,500; the German ghetto: 11...
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the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, were deported to Kaiserwald. In early 1944, a number of smaller camps around Riga were brought under the jurisdiction...
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