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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    "Ghetto games" plans overseas expansion Freeport of Riga Authority – Ghetto Games street sports and culture movement The WFFA partners with the Ghetto...
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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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    characteristic wooden homes. During the Nazi occupation of Riga, the neighborhood was turned into a ghetto for Jews. Today, there are memorials on the site of...
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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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    (now Ukraine) Pskov Ghetto, Military Administration in the Soviet Union (now Russia) Reghin Ghetto, Hungary (now Romania) Riga Ghetto, Reichskommissariat...
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    Elbakjans Founder Ghetto Games Freeport of Riga Authority – Ghetto Games street sports and culture movement The WFFA partners with the Ghetto Games to bring...
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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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    Kovno Ghetto was a ghetto established by Nazi Germany to hold the Lithuanian Jews of Kaunas (Kovno) during the Holocaust. At its peak, the ghetto held...
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    deportees from Austria, Germany, and elsewhere. Jews were confined to Nazi ghettos in Riga and Kauen, which rapidly became overcrowded and squalid. From these...
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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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  • of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto (German: Ghetto Dünaburg) was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Hilde Sherman (category Riga Ghetto inmates)
    survivor and memoirist. During World War II, she was deported to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941 by the Nazis. She later emigrated to Colombia. She published...
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    invaded Poland in September 1939, occupation authorities began to establish ghettos to segregate Jews. Following the June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union...
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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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    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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    The Lwów Ghetto (German: Ghetto Lemberg; Polish: getto we Lwowie) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered...
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