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Following the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto () was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the principal city of the Latgalia region. Daugavpils was located in southeastern Latvia on the Daugava River. The city was militarily important as a major road and railway junction. Before World War II, Daugavpils was the center of a thriving Jewish community in the Latgale region and one of the most important centers of Jewish culture in eastern Europe. Over the course of the German occupation of Latvia, the vast majority of the Jews of Latgale were killed as a result of the Nazi extermination policy.

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  • Daugavpils Ghetto
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  • Following the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto () was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the principal city of the Latgalia region. Daugavpils was located in southeastern Latvia on the Daugava River. The city was militarily important as a major road and railway junction. Before World War II, Daugavpils was the center of a thriving Jewish community in the Latgale region and one of the most important centers of Jewish culture in eastern Europe. Over the course of the German occupation of Latvia, the vast majority of the Jews of Latgale were killed as a result of the Nazi extermination policy.
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  • Daugavpils 01.jpg
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Incident type
  • Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation
Date
  • --06-26
Survivors
  • About 100
Image caption
  • Jews in the Daugavpils ghetto, probably in August, 1941
Victims
  • 13000(xsd:integer)
AKA
  • Dvinsk ghetto, the Citadel, Ghetto Dünaburg
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Event Name
  • Daugavpils Ghetto
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Location
  • Daugavpils, Latvia and vicinity, including Pogulyanka Forest .
abstract
  • Following the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, the Daugavpils Ghetto () was established in an old fortress near Daugavpils. Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia and the principal city of the Latgalia region. Daugavpils was located in southeastern Latvia on the Daugava River. The city was militarily important as a major road and railway junction. Before World War II, Daugavpils was the center of a thriving Jewish community in the Latgale region and one of the most important centers of Jewish culture in eastern Europe. Over the course of the German occupation of Latvia, the vast majority of the Jews of Latgale were killed as a result of the Nazi extermination policy.
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