Libau Killings 1941

[Owen]

Whilst looking for info on the battle of libau in 1941 I came across this image, not connected at all. Just have to keep looking at it, makes me feel really sad and angry at the same time

Liepaja

Libau (Liepaja), 15 December 1941: Jewish women are made to undress in the cold before the very eyes of their murderers

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The execution of Jewish women on the Skede Beach in Libau (Liepaja),
Latvia, 15-16 December, 1941

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Jewish women forced to undress before their execution
on the Skede Beach in Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, 15-16 December, 1941.

More info on Latvian jews
Jews Executed in Stalin Era

Operational Situation Report USSR No. 156

On November 30, 1941, 10,600 Jews were shot in Riga

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The killing fields of Skede

The first SS Einsatzgruppen arrived on the very first day of the Nazi occupation (29 June 1941), killed a number of Jews and recruited volunteers for the Latvian "Self-Defense" unit. The latter promptly began to arrest Jews, especially members of the Workers Party, and took them to the Womens Prison which became a torture chamber and holding pen for the doomed. Some 47 Jews were shot by the Einsatzgruppen on 3 July 1941 and from then on mass executions became commonplace.


During a three day period from 15 - 17 December 1941, in the height of a freezing Baltic winter, some 2749 Jews (mainly women and children) were killed by three German and Latvian firing squads.