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| 39 Holocaust Victims Recovered in Latvia |
| 2022-07-05 |
| I follow this group on Facebook. They do good work, working with Russians as well as local authorities. [LegendaArchaeology] In early June Legenda proudly took part in a recovery operation that harks back to the most chilling events of World War II - The Holocaust. The sad story we became involved in starts back in the hot summer of 1941. German troops had entered Latvia only a week after the launch of Operation Barbarossa and on July 1 Riga had fallen. Less than 10 days later the whole of Latvia was fully under German control. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 ...well, what more could one say? Your father had very good instincts. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-07-05 12:00 |
| #1 My father was born in Riga in 1919. In 1934 his widowed mother emigrated with him to British Mandate Palestine. I don’t know how it was for him in Israel, but after he arrived in America in the late 1950s he had nothing to do with anyone from the old country. Said they were all antisemites. This story may have played into that opinon. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-07-05 00:31 |