Liepāja ghetto

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The Liepāja ghetto was a Nazi-established Jewish ghetto in the Latvian city of Liepāja, where the local Jewish population was confined, exploited, and largely murdered during the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust site
Jewish ghetto
Nazi ghetto
aftermath murder of most of Liepāja’s Jewish population
category History of Liepāja
Holocaust locations in Latvia
Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe
country Nazi Germany
createdBy German occupation authorities
Nazi regime NERFINISHED
endTime 1942–1943
1943
ethnicGroupTargeted Jews NERFINISHED
Latvian Jews NERFINISHED
Liepāja Jews NERFINISHED
hasCause German occupation of Latvia NERFINISHED
antisemitic policies of Nazi Germany
historicalPeriod Nazi occupation of Latvia NERFINISHED
World War II
languageOfEnvironment German
Latvian
Yiddish
locatedIn Courland NERFINISHED
German-occupied Latvia
Latvia NERFINISHED
Liepāja NERFINISHED
Reichskommissariat Ostland NERFINISHED
locatedInPresentDay Republic of Latvia NERFINISHED
locatedNear Baltic Sea NERFINISHED
operatedBy German occupation authorities in Latvia
German police NERFINISHED
Latvian auxiliary police NERFINISHED
Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
SS NERFINISHED
partOf Final Solution NERFINISHED
Holocaust in Latvia NERFINISHED
Holocaust in the Baltic states NERFINISHED
purpose confinement of Jews
exploitation of Jewish labor
facilitation of mass murder of Jews
persecution of Jews
significantEvent deportations of Jews
liquidation of the ghetto
mass shootings of Jews
startTime 1941
July 1941
victim Jewish children
Jewish men
Jewish women

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Holocaust in Latvia placeOfDetention Liepāja ghetto