Eduard Roschmann was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities. As a result of a fictionalized por
Edward Roschmann
False Argentine identification issued to Roschmann in the name of "Federico Wegener".
Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from the German "Reich", to live during World War II. On October 25,
Eduard Roschmann
…Eduard Roschmann (25 November 1908 – 10 August 1977) was an Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmführer and commandant of the Riga Ghetto during 1943. He was responsible for numerous murders and other atrocities. As a result of a fictionalized portrayal in the 1972 novel The Odessa File…
Riga ghetto
1942 photo showing Jews in Riga required to wear the yellow star and forbidden to use the sidewalk