Remembrance stone, placed in 1964 by Jewish activists in memory of those murdered in the massacre.
Also known as
Rumbula, Rumbuli, Rumbula Action, the Big Action, the Jeckeln Action
Location
Rumbula forest, near Riga, Latvia, Reichskommissariat Ostland
Date
November 30 and December 8, 1941
Incident type
Genocide, Mass shootings
Perpetrators
Friedrich Jeckeln, Rudolf Lange, Roberts Osis, Eduard Strauch, and others
Participants
Viktors Arājs, Herberts Cukurs, and others
Organizations
Einsatzgruppen, Ordnungspolizei, Arajs Kommando, Latvian Auxiliary Police and (possibly) Wehrmacht
Ghetto
Riga ghetto
Victims
About 24,000 Latvian Jews and 1,000 German Jews.
Witnesses
Hinrich Lohse, Otto Drechsler, and others
Memorials
On site
The Rumbula massacre is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during World War II. Except for the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine, this was the biggest two-day Holocaust atrocity until the operation of the death camps.[1] 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 train. The Rumbula massacre was carried out by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe A with the help of local collaborators of the Arajs Kommando, with support from other such Latvian auxiliaries. In charge of the operation was Höherer SS und Polizeiführer Friedrich Jeckeln, who had previously overseen similar massacres in Ukraine. Rudolf Lange, who later participated in the Wannsee Conference, also took part in organizing the massacre. Some of the accusations against Latvian Herberts Cukurs are related to the clearing of the Riga Ghetto by the Arajs Kommando. The Rumbula killings, together with many others, formed the basis of the post-World War II Einsatzgruppen trial where a number of Einsatzgruppen commanders were found guilty of crimes against humanity.[2]
^Ezergailis 1996b, p. 239.
^Einsatzgruppen trial, p. 16, Indictment, at 6.F: "(F) On 30 November 1941 in Riga, 20 men of Einsatzkommando 2 participated in the murder of 10,600 Jews."
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