Survivors Testimonies of the Holocaust

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OCR: Before War 11 Riga was the center of Jewish cuiture in Latvia. The 000 Jews who lived there constituted percent of the population and more than haif of the Jewish popuiation in all of Latvia The German Army entered Riga at the end of June 1941 In the first several months of the occupation 4.000 of the Jews of Riga we murdered by the Einsatzgruppen, and 30,000 more We conde ntra into the ARiGE Ghetto on November 19 the Germans se parated the 4,000 Jews of the ghetto who were working mostly skilled men and isolated them r smali portion of the ghetto on November German and Latvian guards surrounded the rest of the ghetto to begin the "Jeckein Action named for the brutal German commander Friedrich Jeckeln. Over the next eight days, the remaining Jewish prisoners were gathered into groups of 1, ...