Einsatzgruppen - Mobile Killing Units

OVERVIEW OF EINSATZGRUPPEN

These mobile killing squads were responsible for Rumbula, Babi Yar and scores of other mass murders.

Map of Eastern Europe Einsatzgruppen Massacres

"Coffin Map" of Einsatzgruppen Murders
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Einsatzgruppen web site
Excellent documentation

 Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) - Film Footage
(select Einsatzgruppen, scroll to the end of that page)
Liepaja, Latvia [requires Real Player - free download available]

 BBC News TV Piece About Rumbula and Nazi War Criminals - Jon Silverman
Latvia Killers Rehabilitated - Text with photos
To view video -- scroll down and in yellow box at left, click on 28K

TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS, INTERROGATION REPORTS

Interrogation of Friedrich Jeckeln about Rumbula and Reports to Himmler
14 December 1945 from Historical State Archives, Riga

Extracts from a Report by Einsatzgruppe A in the Baltic Countries, 1941
Reference to pogroms in Latvia during which synagogues were burned

The Trial of Adolph Eichmann -Transcript Excerpt
Session No. 29 19 Iyar 5721 (5 May 1961)
References to Latvia, Einsatzgruppen and participation of Latvian nationals
in executions

The Trial of German Major War Criminals (Volume 1)
Second Day: Wednesday, 21st November, 1945

Rivka Yosselevska -Testimony at the Eichmann Trial
Mother who was shot and thought dead describes the mass murder of
her family and others

READ MORE ABOUT IT

MASTERS OF DEATH
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and The Invention of the Holocaust
By Richard Rhodes
Knopf.
335 pp. $27.50

Washington Post review of Masters of Death, by Deborah E. Lipstadt
professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University

New York Times Review of Masters of Death, by Walter Reich
followed by other reviews and book excerpt

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The Holocaust in Latvia - Remembering Rumbula

The Holocaust in Latvia - Bikernieki Forest

The Holocaust in Latvia - Liepaja (Libau)

History of Jewish Latvia - Overview

History of Jewish Latvia - Riga

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