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IntersectionLieuXVIIe–XXe siècle

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Region: Lettonie (Kurzeme)

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Ventspils (Windau in German), a port city in Courland (western Latvia), was home to a historic Jewish community since the seventeenth century. Active in maritime and port trade, the community was massacred during the Nazi occupation in 1941.

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