Simon Dubnow was a Jewish-Russian historian, writer and activist.
Semionas Dubnovas
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
Simon Dubnow
…to ghetto inhabitants: Yidn, shraybt un farshraybt (Yiddish: Jews", write and record"). He was among thousands of Jews to be rounded up there for the Rumbula massacre. Too sick to travel to the forest, he was murdered in the city on 8 December 1941. Several friends then buried Simon Dubnow in the old cemetery of the…
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")