Rumbula massacre

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The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust massacre
crime against humanity
mass killing
war crime
alsoKnownAs Rumbula Forest massacre
Rumbula shootings
category Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union
Massacres in 1941
Massacres of Jews
Nazi war crimes in Latvia
commander Friedrich Jeckeln NERFINISHED
commemoratedOn Rumbula Memorial Day
country Nazi Germany
date 1941-11-30
1941-12-08
endDate 1941-12-08
followedBy liquidation of the Riga Ghetto
hasMemorial Rumbula memorial site
location Reichskommissariat Ostland
Rumbula forest
near Riga
methodOfKilling firearms
mass shooting
numberOfVictims approximately 25000
approximately 28000
orderedBy Nazi leadership in Reichskommissariat Ostland
organizer Friedrich Jeckeln NERFINISHED
partOf Final Solution
Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Holocaust in Latvia
Nazi genocide of the Jews
perpetrator Arajs Kommando
Einsatzgruppe A
Latvian auxiliary police
Nazi Germany
SS
plannedBy Higher SS and Police Leader Friedrich Jeckeln
precededBy establishment of the Riga Ghetto
result near destruction of the pre-war Jewish community of Riga
significance major step in the extermination of Latvian Jewry
one of the largest Holocaust mass shootings in Eastern Europe
startDate 1941-11-30
tookPlaceDuring German occupation of Latvia
World War II
victim German Jews
Jews from the Riga Ghetto
Latvian Jews

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Rumbula massacre ("Rumbula Forest massacre")
Rumbula massacre ("Rumbula shootings")
alsoKnownAs
Einsatzgruppen
perpetrated
Rudolf Lange ("Riga Ghetto massacres")
perpetratorOf

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