LIEPAJA SKEDE massacre of the Jews Latvia 1941
In 1941, in Latvia, thousands of Jews were killed in the dunes of Skede near Liepaja. Stills of these events are showed in this video accompanied by one of my own musical compositions called 'Threnody'
Skede Holocaust Memorial In Liepaja, Latvia
Skede Holocaust Memorial In Liepaja, Latvia
Holocaust Memorial - Skede Dunes Massacre
This video is not a political statement. That time in history was huge crime against humanity and it is important, that everyone remembers.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL - Skede massacres
The tragedy in the dunes of Skede
The name Skede is as well as known to the whole world as Bikernieki and Rumbula - the places of extermination of Latvian Jews. An obelisk was erected in Skede in the beginning of the 60's to commemorate mass executions of the Soviet prisoners of war, Liepaja Jews, and other civilians.
There, in the dunes of Skede on the Baltic Sea shore, the History of a 150 year old Liepaja (Libau) Jewish Community recorded its darkest events. The pre-war Jewish community numbered over nine thousand people, a considerable part of Liepaja population. During WWII more than nineteen thousand people were murdered; they were shot and thrown into ditches. The Open Puplic Foundation Liepaja Jewish Heritage initiated a contest for creation of Memorial in the dunes of Skede. The jury of the contest approved Raimonds Gabalinsh, Liepaja sculptor's, concept named Kadish. The shape of the Memorial resembles a Menorah made of boulder stones from the fields of Kurzeme. The lights are made of large granite columbs with inscriptions from Torah.
Remember, it didn't start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing people with us vs them. It started with intolerance and hate speech and when people stopped caring, became desensitized and turned a blind eye.
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Skede Dunes and the Jewish and Russian Memorials.wmv
Come join Liepāja Tours and TheCeļotājs visit to Šķēde dunes which is the largest areas of mass murder sites in Liepāja that took place between 1941--1942, located 15 kilometer north of the City of Liepāja and about a kilometer from the roadway leading to the Šķēde dunes and located along the Baltic Sea shore line.
As we arrive in the parking lot and the path that leads to the mass killing fields and the Šķēde dunes memorials as we start up the path leading to the area and located along the path leading to the Šķēde dunes is a small memorial plaque dedicated to the some 3000 plus anti-Nazi non-Jews of the total people who where murdered here also. Moving up the path we will come to the Jewish Memorial, which is in the shape if a Jewish Hanukkah.The total number of people who were murdered at this location differs from one account to another. Located north of the Jewish Memorial is the Russian Memorial. Starting at the south end of the woods, as you look from the memorials is the start of the mass murder trench lines and continual through the woods to north of the woods along the dunes. The grassy area just in front of the Jewish Memorial is the area that the Jews that were to shot were held before being taken to the trench lines to be shot.
In contrast to most other Holocaust murders in Latvia, the killings at Liepāja were done in open places. About 5,000 of the 5,700 Jews trapped in Liepāja were shot, most of them in 1941. The killings occurred at a variety of places within and outside of the city, including Rainis Park in the city center, and areas near the harbor, the Olympic Stadium, and the lighthouse. The largest massacre, of 2731 Jews, and 23 communists, happened from 15th to the 17th of December 1941, in the dunes near Šķēde, on an old Latvian army training ground. More is known about the killing of the Jews of Liepāja than in any other city in Latvia except for Riga.
The murders in the dunes at Šķēde on the Baltic shore began as early as July 1941. Some 200 Jews were murdered there. During a three-day massacre on 15-17 December 1941, German and Latvian units killed 2,749 Jews, more than half of Liepāja's Jewish population. Preparations for the operation began some days before. On 13 December 1941, Liepāja Police Chief Obersturmbannfuehrer Fritz Diedrich placed an announcement in the Latvian newspaper Kurzemes Vards stating that Jews were forbidden to leave their living quarters on Monday, 15 December and Tuesday, 16 December 1941.
Šķēde, Liepāja December 1941
Murder of Latvian Jews, Šķēde, December 1941
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Šķēde Dunes -- Site of the 1941 Mass Murders and its Memorials.wmv
Come join Liepāja Tours and TheCeļotājs visit to Šķēde dunes which is the largest areas of mass murder sites in Liepāja that took place between 1941--1942, located 15 kilometer north of the City of Liepāja and about a kilometer from the roadway leading to the Šķēde dunes and located along the Baltic Sea shore line.
As we arrive in the parking lot and the path that leads to the mass killing fields and the Šķēde dunes memorials as we start up the path leading to the area and located along the path leading to the Šķēde dunes is a small memorial plaque dedicated to the some 3000 plus anti-Nazi non-Jews of the total people who where murdered here also. Moving up the path we will come to the Jewish Memorial, which is in the shape if a Jewish Hanukkah.The total number of people who were murdered at this location differs from one account to another. Located north of the Jewish Memorial is the Russian Memorial. Starting at the south end of the woods, as you look from the memorials is the start of the mass murder trench lines and continual through the woods to north of the woods along the dunes. The grassy area just in front of the Jewish Memorial is the area that the Jews that were to shot were held before being taken to the trench lines to be shot.
In contrast to most other Holocaust murders in Latvia, the killings at Liepāja were done in open places. About 5,000 of the 5,700 Jews trapped in Liepāja were shot, most of them in 1941. The killings occurred at a variety of places within and outside of the city, including Rainis Park in the city center, and areas near the harbor, the Olympic Stadium, and the lighthouse. The largest massacre, of 2731 Jews, and 23 communists, happened from 15th to the 17th of December 1941, in the dunes near Šķēde, on an old Latvian army training ground. More is known about the killing of the Jews of Liepāja than in any other city in Latvia except for Riga.
The murders in the dunes at Šķēde on the Baltic shore began as early as July 1941. Some 200 Jews were murdered there. During a three-day massacre on 15-17 December 1941, German and Latvian units killed 2,749 Jews, more than half of Liepāja's Jewish population. Preparations for the operation began some days before. On 13 December 1941, Liepāja Police Chief Obersturmbannfuehrer Fritz Diedrich placed an announcement in the Latvian newspaper Kurzemes Vards stating that Jews were forbidden to leave their living quarters on Monday, 15 December and Tuesday, 16 December 1941.
The German SD in 1943 poured chlorine over the corpses.
Testimony of Efraim Neuburger about the mass murder of the Jews from Liepaja in Latvia
Efraim Neuburger, who was born in 1929 in Liepaja, Latvia, testifies about the mass murder of Jews from Liepaja in the dunes at Skede on the Baltic shore, fifteen kilometers north of the city and about a kilometer from the road to the sea, in 1941. Some 200 Jews were murdered there.
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Memoriāls Liepājas ebrejiem – holokausta upuriem /Jews Victims Of Fashism Memorial
Memoriāls Liepājas ebrejiem – holokausta upuriem.
Jews Victims Of Fashism Memorial
Мемориал жертвам Холокоста в Шкеде 1941 – 1945.
Памятник защитникам Лиепаи
С каждым годом 9-го Мая к Памятнику защитникам Лиепаи приходит все больше людей старшие поколения передают младшим память о подвиге дедов
Liepaja Massacre A Jewish Tragedy The killing pits Massacre de Liepaja, les fosses de la mort
Il s'agit de ma musique illustrant les massacres devant des fosses, dans les pays baltes, Liepaja en 1941 ayant fait l'objet de photos prises par les nazis
Holocaust Survivor Describes Escaping the Killing Pit in Skede, Latvia
Holocaust Survivor Max Solway Describes Escaping the Killing Pit in Skede.
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Testimony of Solomon Feigerson about the commemoration of the Jews from Liepaja in Latvia
Solomon Feigerson, who was born in 1930 in Liepaja, Latvia, testifies about the mass murder of Jews from Liepaja in Skede and shows a picture of the monument dedicated to the murdered Jewish victims.
Šķēdes poligonā norit pretgaisa aizsardzības mācības
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The holocaust in Liepaja. Skedes. 1941.
German mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) operated in German-occupied territories in eastern Europe during World War II. This rare footage shows a mobile killing unit during a massacre in Liepaja, Latvia. The film was taken, contrary to orders, by a German soldier. Before the war, the Jewish population of Liepaja stood at more than 7,000 residents. German mobile killing squads shot almost the entire Jewish population of the town. When the Soviet army liberated the city in 1945, just 20 to 30 Jews remained.
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Bunker Skede Latvia Бункер оболочки Латвии
History (from Wikipaedia)
The Liepāja massacres were a series of mass executions, many in public or semi-public, in and near the city of Liepāja (German: Libau), on the west coast of Latvia in 1941 after the Nazi occupation of Latvia. The main perpetrators were detachments of the Einsatzgruppen, the Sicherheitsdienst or SD, the Ordnungspolizei, or ORPO, and Latvian auxiliary police and militia forces. Wehrmacht and German naval forces participated in the shootings.[1] In addition to Jews, the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators also killed Gypsies, communists, the mentally ill[1] and so-called hostages.[2] In contrast to most other Holocaust murders in Latvia, the killings at Liepāja were done in open places.[3] About 5,000 of the 5,700 Jews trapped in Liepāja were shot, most of them in 1941.[2] The killings occurred at a variety of places within and outside of the city, including Rainis Park in the city center, and areas near the harbor, the Olympic Stadium, and the lighthouse. The largest massacre, of 2731 Jews, and 23 communists, happened from December 15 to 17, 1941, in the dunes near Šķēde, on an old Latvian army training ground.[2] More is known about the killing of the Jews of Liepāja than in any other city in Latvia except for Riga.[4]