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| The Holocaust in Latvia | |
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 Exhibit presented at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, showing only 3,500 Jews left alive in Latvia out of about 60,000 in the country at the time of the Nazi invasion. | |
| Also known as | Churbns Lettlands |
| Location | Latvia |
| Date | 22 June 1941 to late 1944 |
| Incident type | Genocide through imprisonment, mass shootings, concentration camps, ghettos, forced labor, starvation |
| Perpetrators | Rudolf Lange, Friedrich Jeckeln, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Viktors Arājs |
| Organizations | Einsatzgruppen, Order Police battalions, Wehrmacht, Arajs Kommando, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Kriegsmarine |
| Victims | About 66,000 Latvian Jews; 19,000 German, Austrian and Czech Jews; unknown numbers of Lithuanian and Hungarian Jews; unknown but substantial number of Roma, communists, and mentally disabled persons |
The Holocaust in Latvia refers to the crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and collaborators victimizing Jews during the occupation of Latvia. From 1941 to 1944, around 70,000 Jews were murdered, approximately three-quarters of the pre-war total of 93,000.[1] In addition, thousands of German and Austrian Jews were deported to the Riga Ghetto.[2]
- ^ "The Names of Shoah Victims from Latvia". Yad Vashem.
- ^ "The JUST Act Report - Latvia". U.S. Dept. of State.