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"...

1977) was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities...

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...

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...

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...

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...

invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union...

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...

Henriette Amalie Lieser (4 July 1875 in Vienna - 3 December 1943 in the Riga ghetto), known as Lilly Lieser, was a patron of the arts in Vienna who was murdered...

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...

deportees from Austria, Germany, and elsewhere. Jews were confined to Nazi ghettos in Riga and Kauen, which rapidly became overcrowded and squalid. From these...

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...

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...

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...

approximate ghetto and concentration camp populations of German Jews in Riga and the vicinity were: Jungfernhof concentration camp, 2,500; the German ghetto: 11...

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...

Germany at Hitler's behest, after 700 years in Riga. The city's Jewish community was forced into a ghetto in the Maskavas neighbourhood, and concentration...

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...

Holocaust she and her mother were deported and shot by the Nazis in the Riga Ghetto in September 1943. Henoch was Jewish, and was born in Königsberg, East...

were to be used in forced labor. They were to be gathered together in ghettos and were "to be given only as much food as the rest of the population can...

deported to the Riga Ghetto. Berner managed to stay together with her for long stretches of time. Both were deployed in work details near Riga, in particular...

Monastirskaja was placed along with over 40,000 Jews in the specially built Riga Ghetto. Her husband had earlier been abducted and taken to Biķernieki. On 30...

Leningrad into a Jewish family and grew up in Riga. From 1941 to 1945 he was imprisoned in the Riga Ghetto, then the Lenta Arbeitslager, and then three...

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...

Max Raphael Hahn (born April 22, 1880, in Göttingen; died March 1942 in Riga) was a Jewish entrepreneur, chairman of the Jewish community of Göttingen...

moved to a ghetto in the so-called Moscow suburb of Riga. Between November 29 and December 8, 1941, thousands of Jews living in the Riga Ghetto were taken...

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...

les commandos de la mort by Michaël Prazan, broadcast on France 2 in 2009. Philippe Labrune saw the photograph in the Jewish museum in Riga. It is part...

formal head of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, though its de facto leader was Adolf Eichmann. Differences of opinion with Reinhard Heydrich...

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...