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OCR: In March 1943 the Kaiserwald camp was established near Riga Latvia, as concentration and iabor camp for Latvian Jews who had survived the murder cam paians of the Einsatzgruppen in 1941 and 1942 Later Jews from Germany Poland and Hungary were sent to Kaiserwald when ghettos across eastern Europe were closed. In July 1943. when the Riga Ghetto was liquidated, Bert was sent to Kaiserwald and iater his father and 170 sister joined him 1 there. As ir other 110 111 .91 ya97 1943 labor camps, prisoners at Kaiserwaid were brutally expioited and mistreated; thousands died from hunger, coid, and disease. in July 1944 as the Soviet Army approached, the transferred the surviving Kaiserwald inmates by ship and train to the Stutthof camp near Danzig. campaigns ciosed exploited cold

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