The Shoah (1939–1945)
Massacre of Ludza
Été 1941·Ludza
Toll
plusieurs centaines de morts
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The community of one of the oldest towns in Latgale, whose wooden synagogue had spanned two centuries, is shot in the woods bordering the lakes.
Ludza, one of the oldest communities in Latgale, preserved a remarkable wooden synagogue, since restored. Its Jewish inhabitants were gathered in the first weeks of the occupation, detained, then led to pits dug in the nearby woods and shot during the summer by auxiliaries supervised by the security police.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lettonie
Sources
Andrew Ezergailis, *The Holocaust in Latvia* ; *Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee.