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Latvia: Remembering Holocaust Victims on July 4

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Latvia, Ethnicity & Race, History, Human Rights, War & Conflict

Marginalia reports [1] that in Latvia, July 4 is “set aside for remembrance of the genocide against the Jews — ca. 70 000 Latvian Jews [2] and 20 000 foreign Jews were murdered here during the Nazi phase of the occupation [3].”