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Liepaja-The Holocaust MENU - Liepaja-The Holocaust Introduction Dedication of Memorial Liepeja Holocaust Histories Names of Victims and Survivors Film Footage Photos Related Pages About 7100 Jews lived in Liepaja in June of 1941. Approximately 200 survived the Nazi occupation of Latvia along with about 300 who survived in the USSR. The murder of nearly 3,000 Liepaja Jews at nearby Skede, on the Baltic Sea, occurred on December 15 - 17, 1941. These killings by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) and of their Latvian collaborators are documented in an extraordinary and heartbreaking photographic record. A film clip and still pictures are accessible below. A list of the names of most of
the victims and survivors was created in
DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL - JUNE 9, 2004 Dedication
of Libau Memorial Wall and Renovation of Cemetery Photos of the Libau Memorial Wall
LIEPAJA HOLOCAUST HISTORIES ON THE WEB Liepaja-December
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NAMES OF VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS A Database of Victims and Survivors of Liepaja Liepaja Jewish Cemetery Burials 1909-1941 The Holocaust in Liepaja in brief, and how the list of names was created
These are photos of executions of Liepaja Jews at nearby Skede, Latvia on December 15-17, 1941. These photos are at the web site of Edward Anders, an expert on the Holocaust in Liepaja. Shkede Executions - 10 Photographs
The Holocaust in Latvia - Einsatzgruppen History of Jewish Latvia - Liepaja (Libau)
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