The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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Daugavpils

Murder Sites:

The Railroad Public Garden

Pogulyanka

Zolotaya Gorka

Commemoration:

Commemoration of Jewish Victims

The Railroad Public Garden

On Sunday, June 29, 1941, announcements were distributed across the town ordering all the Jewish men (aged 18-60) to report to the market square. During the evening, all those gathered together were taken to the prison. The shootings began the following day. By July 7, 1942, 1,125 prisoners had been shot in the railroad public garden, next to the prison. The victims included many Jews.

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Rachel Schneider was born in 1927 in Daugavpils, and lived there during the war years.
(Interview in Russian)

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