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Rumbula Massacre
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Rumbula Massacre
By:
Hannah Joswig & Maddy Meeker
"Killing one person is easy and is easily concealed. So is killing ten people. Killing a hundred or a thousand people during the course of a single day takes planning and coordination, for which reason it will necessarily have a public dimension."
In one of the first few phases of the Holocaust, Nazis would gather Jews and murder them in mass quantities.
The Rumbula Massacre is one of the many mass killings that had taken place around this time.
Franz Walter Stahlecker was a lawyer and became head of the gestapo. 249,420 Jews were killed while Stahlecker was the leader of the Einsatzgruppe A. He was present at the time of the Rumbula Massacre.
VOCAB
Once they got into the forest, they were ordered to leave their suitcases,
and undress.
They were then taken to the edge of one of the freshly dug mass graves.
They were lined up and shot in the back of the head.
As the shots repeated, the bodies fell backward and crumbled into the grave.
One after another was killed, until the dug grave was filled, then they would
move on to the next mass grave and the murders would continue.
1. Franz Walter Stahlecker- 249,420 Jews were killed while Stahlecker was the leader of the Einsatzgruppe A and he was present at the Rumbula Massacre.
2. Arajs Kommando- was a killing unit present at the Rumbula Massacre that was lead by Viktors Arajs. Every member of this group was a volunteer and most were students and former officers.
3. Riga Ghetto- In Riga, Latvia. Most of the Latvian Jews (about 24,000) were killed on November 30 and December 8, 1941 in the Rumbula massacre. The Nazis transported a large number of German Jews to the ghetto.
4. Einsatzgruppen- "task forces" were responsible for mass killings, typically by shooting, of Jews in particular, were present at the Rumbula Massacre
Although the actual killing was only two days, the Nazis began to prep in August, 1941 by having to construct a ghetto in Riga and ghettoize the city's Jews.
Afterward, the cleanup took place in two phases. First, converting the property stolen from the killed Jews into money.
And the second phase was exhuming the buried bodies and burning them, which took place two years later (Summer 1943).
On November 30th and Dec 8th 1941 Jewish groups were taken from the Riga Ghetto by railway carriages, trucks and/or were forced to walk to Rumbula Forest where their lives were changed forever.
The Way out
The Arajs Kommando was another killing unit present at the Rumbula Massacre that was lead by Viktors Arajs. Every member of this group was a volunteer and most were students and former officers.