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I Maailmasõda, I Maailmasõda ja iseseisvumine, Independence of the Baltic States, II Maailmasõda, IV Nõukogude okupatsioon

Riia Geto- ja Läti Holokaustimuuseum asub Riias keskturu ja pearaudteejaama läheduses. Muuseum avati 2010. aastal kohas, kus kunagi asusid linna laod. See on rajatud ajaloolisse linnaosasse, mis piirnes endise juudigetoga. Geto ala on ainulaadne, sest arhitektuuriliselt ei ole see pärast Teist maailmasõda muutunud. See on mälestuspaik juudi rahva tragöödiale. Natsi-Saksamaa poliitika Läti juudi elanikkonna suhtes seisnes 1939. aasta lõpuni selles, et Saksa diplomaadid ja poliitikud üritasid avaldada survet Läti valitsusele juudivastaste meetmete rakendamiseks ja nende vabaduse piiramiseks. Pärast baltisakslaste lahkumist 1939. aastal ei olnud Saksa saatkonnal enam nii head ülevaadet elanikkonna meelsuse ja Lätis toimuva kohta. Kui Punaarmee okupeeris Läti ja hakkas ühiskonnaga manipuleerima, toetas osa juudi elanikkonnast uut okupatsioonivõimu. Pärast seda, kui režiim pöördus terve ühiskonna vastu, langes toetus kiiresti. Ometi oli tekkinud sügav lõhe elanikkonnas, mida püüdis hiljem ära kasutada järgmine okupatsioonirežiim, Natsi-Saksamaa. See lootis, et kohalik elanikkond ahistab ja ründab juute, kuid seda ei juhtunud. Saksamaa töötas välja uue plaani, mis alguses nägi ette Riia geto loomist, aga hiljem hävitas selle elanikud.

Asub Rumbulas Moskava tänava lähedal.

Rumbula on üks suurimaid juutide massilise hävitamise kohti Euroopas. Kahe aktsiooni ajal – 1941. a. 30. novembril ja 8. detsembril, mis realiseerusid natside juhtkonna otsusel Riia getos vangistatud juudid täielikult hävitada, lasti Rumbula metsas maha üle 25 000 inimese, sealhulgas ligikaudu 1000 Saksamaalt küüditatud juuti. 1944. aastal Rumbulas tapeti ka mitusada juudi meest Kaiserwaldi koonduslaagrist.

Esimesed katsed Rumbulas tapetud juutide mälestust jäädvustada pärinevad 60. aastate lõpust. Vaatamata Nõukogude valitsuse piirangutele mõnede juutide initsiatiivil 1963. a. ühele Rumbula männile kinnitati jidišikeelse kirjaga puidust mälestustahvel, Rumbula raudtee äärde (Riia-Moskva liini lähedusse) aga kunstnik Josif Kuzkovskise suur plakat "Juut". Plakatil oli hauast rusikasse surutud mehe kujutis, mis sümboliseerib protesti tehtu vastu. Nii mälestustahvel kui plakat juba 1964. aastal. koristati, kuid juutidel õnnestus saada luba Rumbulasse mälestuskivi püstitamiseks mitte ainult läti- ja venekeelse, vaid ka jidišikeelse kirjaga "Fašismi ohvrid".

aastal 2002 29. novembril avati Rumbulas memoriaalansambel arhitekt Sergejs Riži projekti järgi. Selle loomist toetasid rahaliselt Läti, Iisraeli, USA ja Saksamaa institutsioonid ning eraisikud.

Kiirtee äärde, memoriaali juurde viiva tee äärde on märgiks paigaldatud natsismijõude sümboliseeriv metallkonstruktsioon. Lähedal on kivi seletusega, et seda teed mööda aeti surnuks tuhandeid juute. Mälestusmärgi enda sissepääsu juures on mitmed läti-, inglise-, saksa- ja heebreakeelsete kirjetega kivitahvlid tutvustavad Rumbula tragöödia sündmusi ja mälestussamba rajamise ajalugu. Mälestusmärgi keskosas, Taaveti tähe kujulise väljaku kohal kõrgub seitsmeharuline küünlajalg - menora, mida ümbritsevad kivid, millele on graveeritud Rumbulas tapetud juutide nimed. Endise Riia geto tänavate nimed on raiutud üksikutesse kividesse, millega plats on sillutatud. Mälestusmärgi territooriumil on mitu ühishauda, mille kohad on tähistatud ristkülikukujuliste betoonpiiretega.

Salaspilsi memoriaalansambel ja ajaloonäitus asub Salaspilsi piirkonnas, 1,2 km kaugusel Riia-Daugavpilsi maanteest A6. Salaspilsi memoriaal avati 1967. aastal kohas, kus Teise maailmasõja ajal asus Salaspilsi laager. See on müütidest ja pooltõdedest ümbritsetud koht, mida kasutati nõukogude propaganda jaoks, natside kuritegude ja kommunistliku ideoloogia näidis. Salaspilsis asus karistuslaager, mis oli osa Saksamaa karistusasutuste süsteemist. See sarnanes koonduslaagritega, kuid ei olnud üks neist. Laager loodi selleks, et Riia vanglates poleks liiga palju vange. Laager oli politseivangla laiendus. Siin hoiti vangis erinevaid inimesi, näiteks juute, Punaarmee sõjavange, tööle hilinejaid, poliitvange, kriminaalkurjategijaid, prostituute, Läti vastupanuliikumise liikmeid ja Saksa armees või politseis teeninud balti sõdureid. Laagris võis ühtaegu olla kuni 2200 vangi. Surma põhjustasid peamiselt (~2000) kehv toit, töötingimused, kehaline karistamine ja haigused.

Žanis (Janis) Lipke memoriaalansambel asub Riias Ķīpsalas. Žanis Lipke Muuseum on tõenäoliselt üks Riia peidetumaid muuseume. Memoriaali varjatud asukoht ei ole juhuslik ja sellel on sümboolne tähendus. See on rajatud kohta, kus Teise maailmasõja aegse Saksa okupatsiooni ajal asus maa-alune peidupaik inimeste päästmiseks. Siin päästsid Žanis Lipke ja tema perekond 55 juuti. Praegune memoriaal on rajatud Žanis Lipke perekonna maja juurde. Memoriaalehitis „Must kuur“ on sümboolne hoone, kus pakuti ja saadi varju. Hoone kujundamisel on saadud inspiratsiooni Ķīpsala kalurite ja meremeeste ajaloolistest tõrvatud hüttidest, mille ehitamisel kasutati pargastest saadud materjale. Seetõttu oli neil väga eripärane värv ja tõrvalõhn. Ainulaadne ei ole ainult selle paiga lugu, vaid ka viis, kuidas muuseum oma külastajatega suhtleb. Üldisel kujundusel on sarnasusi Piiblis kirjeldatud Noa laevaga, samuti meenutab see kaldale tõmmatud ja ümber pööratud paati, mis on oma ülesande täitnud. Memoriaalansambli kontseptsioon tugineb koha ja loo tõesusele ja nendega seotud mälestusesemetele. See on lugu inimese vabadusihast, uskumatust põgenemisest ja usaldusest. Teel muuseumisse on võimalik tutvuda ka Pārdaugava ajaloolise hoonestusega.

Grieze is located at the Latvian-Lithuanian border, where the Vadakste River flows into the Venta River. The Grieze church was built in 1580, but the parish existed before 1567. The church was rebuilt several times - in 1769, in 1845 and in 1773 the first organ was installed. Both the altarpiece and the two bells have been lost for various reasons.

In the church garden there is a cemetery where people belonging to the church and noblemen are buried. One of them is Grieze organist Friedrich Baris and his wife Charlotte, who have a monument erected in front of the church sacristy. On the south side of the church, 32 Swedish soldiers who died in the Great Northern War are buried. The cemetery also contains the graves of 110 German soldiers who died in the First World War, for whom a monument was erected in 1930.

During the Second World War, the church suffered when the front line was stretched along the Venta River in late October 1944 and the German 225th Infantry Division was stationed in the vicinity of Grieze Church. When the Soviet 4th Shock Army launched attacks across the Venta River on 19 November 1944, several artillery shells hit the south wall of the church and the church tower was badly damaged.

After the surrender of Army Group Kurzeme, the Red Army's Leningrad Front accounted for 284 171 people taken prisoner. 7493 were Red Army soldiers released from German captivity. 48 German generals surrendered to captivity. According to the documents submitted at the time of the surrender of Army Group Kurzeme, the number of soldiers was about 185 000. The rest of the nearly 100 000 people subjected to filtration were Kurzeme civilians and Soviet refugees, as the Soviet Leningrad Front ordered on 10 May 1945 that all men between the ages of 16 and 60 be subjected to filtration.

In the Red Army, unlike the armed forces of other countries, the screening, guarding, maintenance and protection of prisoners of war was carried out not by army units, but by the internal affairs bodies - the People's Commissariat for State Security. The main task of the filtration was to detect citizens of the USSR and Soviet-occupied countries who had taken part in the hostilities on the German side. Captured German soldiers were examined in order to detect possible perpetrators of war crimes.

A prisoner-of-war filtration camp was located in the vicinity of the Grieze Church from 10 May to 17 June 1945. The camp was probably located here because the Grieze Church was close to the main roads. The pits in the ground where the prisoners hid from the cold on cold nights by covering themselves with whatever was available are still clearly visible in the surrounding area. During this period, the Red Army caused considerable damage to the interior of the church (all the pews were removed - "for the war effort", the pulpit was damaged, the organ was destroyed, etc.). A laundry was set up in the church building itself.

The last service in the church was in 1950 and the congregation ceased to exist. After the dissolution of the congregation, also later under the supervision of the Latvian Society for the Protection of Nature and Monuments, the church was not repaired. However, the building stood under roof until the 1960s-1970s. The church was damaged during the storm of 1961 and in 1968 the remaining interior elements were rescued by the Rundāle Palace staff.

Since 2003, a group of like-minded people from Riga parishes have been involved in the clean-up and restoration of the church. To date, the church walls have been conserved and the tower has been restored.
 

This memorial to the victims of the Holocaust is situated not far from the small borough of Klooga.

The first monument was erected here in 1951, but it essentially praised the Soviet ideology and did little to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. In 1994, the plaques on the monument were replaced with new ones at the request of the Jewish community in Estonia so as to do justice to the victims' ethnic roots. On the 50th anniversary of the mass murder perpetrated in Klooga, a monument to the Jews killed in Estonia from 1941-1944 was unveiled 100 metres from the first monument. In 2005, a third monument was unveiled commemorating the Jews who died or were killed in the concentration camp in Klooga.

The memorial was renovated in 2013 to tie the three monuments together, with the Estonian History Museum opening an outdoor exhibition here entitled ‘Klooga camp and the Holocaust’.

Klooga concentration camp was established by the German regime in September 1943. It was a forced-labour sub-camp of the Vaivara concentration camp complex in Estonia. On 19 September 1944, one of the largest mass murders in German-occupied Estonia was committed: all of the Jews at the camp (around 2000 in total) were killed as the Red Army approached.

This monument is situated in the village of Kaberneeme.

Unveiled in 1960, it remembers the Jews killed in the concentration camp at Jägala in 1942 and 1943. It was designed by P. Madalik.

Jägala concentration camp was established by the German regime in August 1942. Approximately 2200 prisoners were taken there by train from across Europe in September that year. Most of them were shot on arrival at the nearby Kalevi-Liiva training area; the rest were put to work. Around 2000 people were killed in total. The camp was closed in September 1943 and the remaining prisoners were relocated to Tallinn Central Prison in the Patarei Sea Fortress.

At the end of 1943, the Nazi German occupation authorities, planning to expand the SS motorised weapons units, started to build a training ground called "Seelager" (Sea Camp) in the vicinity of Dundaga. The inhabitants of the parishes of Dundaga and Arlava were evacuated to set up the training ground. 

In order to build the infrastructure for the camp, several branches of the concentration camp "Kaiserwald" were located in the vicinity of Dundaga, where around 6000 Jews from various European countries (including Latvia) and around 1000 prisoners of war and partisans were imprisoned. Many prisoners died as a result of executions and poor living conditions. Some of the dead were buried in the "Čiekuri" branch camp, which according to some accounts was also the murder site of a group of Jews who were building a narrow-gauge railway towards Mazirbe.

At the beginning of August 1944, after the Soviet invasion of Zemgale, the training ground was liquidated, several thousand untrained SS recruits were sent back to Germany, and the SS motorised brigade Gross was formed from the command, instructors and trained soldiers, named after the commander of the training ground, SS Standard-Sergeant Martin Gross. The Brigade took part in the Battle of Tukums in August 1944, and in the Battles of Iecava and Baldone in September 1944.

After the departure of the SS units, the infrastructure of the training ground was used to accommodate Jews evacuated from Riga and other regions of Latvia, who continued to be used as slave labour.