Jewish Riga: Ghetto, Rumbula and Destruction

Riga was Latvia’s largest Jewish center before German occupation, followed by ghettoization, the Rumbula massacres and deportees from the Reich.

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Before occupation

Riga supported synagogues, schools, Zionist and Bundist institutions.

The principal massacres on 30 November and 8 December 1941 destroyed most of the local ghetto population.

German, Austrian and Czech Jews were deported to Riga and nearby sites.

Remaining Jews were subjected to forced labor and later transferred into the Kaiserwald system.

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