Event

Rumbula massacre

1941 · 20th century

The Rumbula massacre was the killing of about 25,000 Jews in Rumbula forest near Riga on 30 November and 8 December 1941. Most victims came from the Riga ghetto, together with about a thousand Jews deported from Germany, and were shot by Einsatzgruppe A under Friedrich Jeckeln with Latvian auxiliaries of the Arājs Kommando. It was one of the largest mass shootings of the Holocaust.

Rumbula massacre
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Reichskommissariat OstlandLatvian Self-Administration

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