Riga Ghetto

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Holocaust site Jewish ghetto Nazi ghetto

The Riga Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany in occupied Latvia, where thousands of Jews were confined, exploited, and murdered as part of the Holocaust.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Riga ghetto	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust site ⓘ Jewish ghetto ⓘ Nazi ghetto ⓘ
controlledBy	German occupation authorities in Latvia ⓘ SS NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Latvia ⓘ
endDate	1943 ⓘ 1944 ⓘ
estimatedNumberOfVictims	tens of thousands ⓘ
hasPart	Large Ghetto NERFINISHED ⓘ Small Ghetto NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfInhabitants	German ⓘ Latvian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ
linkedToEvent	deportations of Jews from Germany to the East ⓘ mass shootings at Rumbula forest ⓘ transports to Kaiserwald concentration camp ⓘ
locatedIn	Generalbezirk Lettland NERFINISHED ⓘ Moscow Suburb of Riga ⓘ Reichskommissariat Ostland NERFINISHED ⓘ Riga NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableCommander	Friedrich Jeckeln NERFINISHED ⓘ Viktors Arajs NERFINISHED ⓘ
operatedBy	Nazi Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Final Solution NERFINISHED ⓘ Holocaust in Eastern Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Holocaust in Latvia NERFINISHED ⓘ
perpetrator	Arajs Kommando NERFINISHED ⓘ Einsatzgruppen NERFINISHED ⓘ German Order Police NERFINISHED ⓘ Latvian auxiliary police NERFINISHED ⓘ SS guards NERFINISHED ⓘ
populationType	Austrian Jews ⓘ Czech Jews ⓘ German Jews ⓘ Latvian Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ stateless Jews deported from the Reich ⓘ
significantEvent	Riga Ghetto massacre of November–December 1941 ⓘ Rumbula massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ creation of Riga Ghetto in autumn 1941 ⓘ division into Large Ghetto and Small Ghetto ⓘ liquidation of the ghetto ⓘ
startDate	1941-10-25 ⓘ 1941-11-03 ⓘ
usedFor	confinement of Jews ⓘ deportation of Jews to killing sites ⓘ forced labor ⓘ persecution of Jews ⓘ
victim	Jewish children ⓘ Jewish men ⓘ Jewish women ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Latvian Jews → ghetto → Riga Ghetto ⓘ

Holocaust in Latvia → placeOfDetention → Riga Ghetto ⓘ

Rumbula forest → victimSelectionLocation → Riga Ghetto ⓘ

this entity surface form: Riga ghetto