What the records say
- When
- Aug 1941
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 1,500
- Coordinates
- 56.62° N, 23.74° E
- Description
- Killing of Jews in Jelgava, Latvia
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “уничтожение евреев, советских активистов и сочувствовавших советской власти жителей Елгавы в Латвии подразделениями айнзацкоманды «1a» и латышскими…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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