Dünamünde Action
1942 Nazi operation in Latvia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dünamünde Action (Aktion Dünamünde) was an operation launched by the Nazi German occupying force and local collaborationists in Biķernieki forest,[1] near Riga, Latvia. Its objective was to execute Jews who had recently been deported to Latvia from Germany, Austria, Bohemia and Moravia. These murders are sometimes separated into the First Dünamünde Action, occurring on March 15, 1942, and the Second Dünamünde Action on March 26, 1942. About 1,900 people were killed in the first action and 1,840 in the second. The victims were lured to their deaths by a false promise that they would receive easier work at a (non-existent) resettlement facility near a former neighbourhood in Latvia called Daugavgrīva (Dünamünde). Rather than being transported to a new facility, they were trucked to woods north of Riga, shot, and buried in previously dug mass graves. The elderly, the sick and children predominated among the victims.
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Also known as | Operation Dünamünde, Aktion Dünamünde |
Location | Biķernieki forest, now -North-East area of Riga, Latvia 56°58′04″N 24°12′47″E |
Date | March 1942 |
Incident type | Mass shootings |
Perpetrators | Kurt Krause, Eduard Roschmann, Gerhard Maywald |
Organizations | Arajs Kommando |
Victims | About 3,740 German, Czech, and Austrian Jews |