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Daugavpils Ghetto - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) Nomenclature. The Holocaust begins in Daugavpils. Early killings. Railroad Park massacre. Measures against Jews. Construction of the ghetto. Forced relocation to the ghetto. Perpetrators. July and August killings. Life in the ghetto. November shootings. Associated German and Latvian units.
Daugavpils Ghetto in July 1941 Prior to 1941, Daugavpils, called Dvinsk by its Jewish inhabitants, was home to the most prominent Jewish community in eastern Latvia. The city was already a Jewish center as early as the 1780s and by the time of the 1897 census, they numbered 32,400 (44% of the overall population of the city).
- 7.6%
- 13.3%
- 20.1%
- 48.6%
August 2, 1941 - The Ghetto was still overcrowded and the Germans decided that Jews from other towns and villages would be set up in another ghetto. Only Jews from Daugavpils and Griva and Lithuanian refugees would remain in the Ghetto. A few thousand left Daugavpils ghetto and were killed in Mežciems forest.
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After the refugees were overrun by the German army, the author's dance with death in the Daugavpils Prison, the Daugavpils Ghetto, the Citadel, amongst partisans of White Russia and Dachau Concentration Camp are chronicled in a calm, dispassionate narrative. 'How Dark the Heavens' won the 1991 August Derleth Non-Fiction book award.
Daugavpils Ghetto and Holocaust Memorial. Introduction. History. Victims. Remembrance. Service. Print. A monument in Daugavpils commemorates the Jews murdered in the city in 1941/42. 16 further memorial stones honour the Jewish victims of National Socialism all over Europe.
Daugavpils, Mežciems, Memorial to the Victims of Nazism. Location of the memorial: Latitude: 55.905025. Longitude: 26.472987. The Nazi troops entered Daugavpils on 26 June 1941 and already on the first days of occupation launched the campaign to exterminate the Jews of Daugavpils.
EN The Daugavpils ghetto existed from July 15, 1941 to October 28, 1943. More than 13,000 Jews passed through the ghetto gates. A little more than 100 survived. In the ghetto there were, like the Jews of Daugavpils and the surrounding area, small towns and townships of Latgale, as well as several thousand Jews from Lithuania.
