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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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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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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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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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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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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Riga (/ˈriːɡə/ REE-gə) is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States. Home...
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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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