November 30

  • NAZI MASSACRE IN RUMBULA FOREST

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Riga, German-Occupied Latvia • November 30, 1941 On November 25 and 29, 1941, Einsatz­gruppe 3 (Special Task Group 3), one of many SS (short for Schutz­staffel) mobile death squads oper­ating behind German front lines, mur­dered5,000 “Reich Jews,” that is, German- and Austrian-born Jews. These men, women, and chil­dren had arrived in the Baltic ghetto at Kaunas, Lithuania’s second…

  • NAZI ATROCITY IN RUMBULA FOREST

    ByNorm Haskett Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Riga, Occupied Latvia · November 30, 1941 On November 25 and 29, 1941, Einsatz­gruppe 3 (Special Task Group 3), one of many SS (short for Schutz­staffel) mobile death squads oper­ating behind German front lines, mur­dered 5,000 “Reich Jews,” that is, Ger­man- and Austrian-born Jews. These men, women, and chil­dren had arrived in the Baltic ghetto…