Jews in the Daugavpils ghetto, probably in August, 1941
Also known as
Dvinsk ghetto, the Citadel, Ghetto Dünaburg
Location
Daugavpils, Latvia and vicinity, including Pogulyanka (Poguļanka) Forest (sometimes called Mežciems forest).
Date
June 26, 1941 to October 1943
Incident type
Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation
Perpetrators
Erich Ehrlinger, Joachim Hamann, Günter Tabbert, Roberts Blūzmanis
Organizations
Nazi SS, Rollkommando Hamann, Arajs Kommando, Latvian Auxiliary Police
Victims
13,000 to 16,000 Jews, mostly Latvians with some Lithuanians
Survivors
About 100
Following the occupation 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 is the second largest city in Latvia, located on the Daugava River in the southeastern, Latgale, region of Latvia. The city was militarily important as a major road and railway junction. Before World War II, Daugavpils was the center of a thriving Jewish community in the Latgale region and one of the most important centers of Jewish culture in eastern Europe.[1] Over the course of the German occupation of Latvia, the vast majority of the Jews of Latgale were killed as a result of the Nazi extermination policy.
^Ezergailis, The Holocaust in Latvia, pages 90 to 91.
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