Riga, Latvia and vicinity, including Rumbula and Biķernieki forests
Date
July 1941 to October 1943
Incident type
Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labour, starvation, exile, mass death from epidemics of neglected infectious diseases, forced abortions and sterilization
Perpetrators
Hans-Adolf Prützmann, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Hinrich Lohse, Friedrich Jeckeln, Kurt Krause, Eduard Roschmann, Viktors Arājs, Herberts Cukurs
Organizations
Nazi SS, Arajs Kommando, Latvian Auxiliary Police
Camp
Kaiserwald
Victims
About 30,000 Latvian Jews and 20,000 German, Czech, and Austrian Jews
Survivors
About 1,000 people
Memorials
At ruins of Great Choral Synagogue in Riga and in Rumbula and Biķernieki forests
Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from Germany, to live during World War II. On October 25, 1941, the Nazis relocated all Jews from Riga and its vicinity to the ghetto and its non-Jewish inhabitants were evicted. Most Latvian Jews (about 35,000) were killed on November 30 or December 8, 1941, in the Rumbula massacre. The Nazis transported a large number of German Jews to the ghetto; most of them were later killed in massacres.
While Riga Ghetto is commonly referred to as a single entity, in fact there were several "ghettos". The first was the large Latvian ghetto. After the Rumbula massacre, the surviving Latvian Jews were concentrated in a smaller area within the original ghetto, which became known as the "small ghetto". The small ghetto was divided into men's and women's sections. The area of the ghetto not allocated to the small ghetto was then reallocated to the Jews being deported from Germany, and became known as the German ghetto.[1]
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Jungfernhof") or a little later in a Nazi-delineated part of Riga, which later became known as the RigaGhetto. The camp site was prepared in October 1941 by Soviet...
massacres. They also participated in the mass slaughter of Jews from the RigaGhetto and several thousand Jews deported from Germany, as guards at the Rumbula...
burning of the Riga synagogues occurred in 1941, during the first days of the World War II Nazi German occupation of the city of Riga, the capital and...
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Sachsenhausen. In 1943, Sauer was involved in the destruction of the RigaGhetto, which involved executing or deporting thousands of people (mostly Jews)...
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...
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 RigaGhetto. It...
survived Rumbula” which records the Holocaust in Latvia, her life in the RigaGhetto and how she managed to survive the massacre in Rumbula forest. She was...
the Babi Yar massacre, to liquidate the Rigaghetto. Jeckeln selected a site about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Riga near the Rumbula railway station, and...
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 RigaGhetto commanded by Eduard Roschmann, "The Butcher of Riga", Miller resolves to search for Roschmann whom...
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