The Shoah, commonly referred to as the Holocaust, was the organized mass execution of Jewish civilians incongruent with Nazi Germany's political agenda. From December 15-17th 1941, a massacre of ~2,700 Latvian Jewish ...

At least 1000 Jewish people were executed within the Liepāja coastal dunes in southwestern Latvia. These atrocities were committed throughout the month of July in 1941 by Nazis and Latvian collaborators south of the port’s ...

The country of Latvia, located along the Baltic Sea, was invaded by the Nazis in late June of 1941. During the occupation, Nazi soldiers and their Latvian collaborators were sent out to exterminate all Jewish people and ...

Aizpute Latvia is home to one of the many forgotten Jewish communities that succumbed to Nazi and local antisemitic violence during the Holocaust. Despite the significant cultural and economic contributions of the Jewish ...