Rumbula massacre
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The Rumbula massacre is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during World
Remembrance stone, placed in 1964 by Jewish activists in memory of those murdered in the massacre.
Friedrich Jeckeln in Soviet custody after World War II. On January 27, 1942, he was awarded the War Merit Cross First Class with Swords (Kriegsverdienstkreuz or KVK) for his ruthless efficiency.
The Riga Ghetto in 1942, after the Rumbula massacre
Simon Dubnow 1860–1941, Jewish writer, historian and activist, of whom a legend arose that on December 8, 1941, he counseled the Jews in the Riga ghetto:- Yiddish: Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt ("Jews, write and record")
Rudolf Lange
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Rudolf Lange was a German SS-Standartenführer and police official during the Nazi era. After the invasion of the Soviet Union, he served in Einsatzgruppe A before becoming a commander of the Sicherhei
Rumbula massacre
…auxiliaries. In charge of the operation was Höherer SS und Polizeiführer Friedrich Jeckeln, who had previously overseen similar massacres in Ukraine. Rudolf Lange, who later participated in the Wannsee Conference, also took part in organizing the massacre. Some of the evidence against Latvian Herberts Cukurs is…
Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, p.2, listing Lange as a participant