The Shoah (1939–1945)
Destruction of the Jelgava community
Juill.-août 1941·Jelgava
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The great synagogue is set ablaze and the Jewish community of Mitau is shot by the Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian auxiliary police in the weeks following the occupation.
The great synagogue of Jelgava is burned down, and the community of the city once known as Mitau is shot by the Einsatzgruppen and the Latvian auxiliary police in the weeks following the occupation.
Latvia is one of the countries where the extermination was the swiftest and most complete: nearly all Jews from small towns were murdered before the end of the year, often by local auxiliary units supervised by a handful of Germans. Jelgava was declared "free of Jews" by summer, like the other provincial towns.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lettonie
Rapports des Einsatzgruppen ; commission d'historiens de Lettonie.