WWII Jewish Deportations to Riga

While under Nazi German control in WWII, Riga became a deportation hub for some 25,000 Jews between "1941 to the winter of 1942". While exploring old town Riga, we came across a series of plagues detailing stories of deportees and statistics about the Jewish deportations. Most of the deportees came from other countries, most came from Germany, but some came from Austria, and even some from Auschwitz.

Of note, in the below pictures:
* I included the 3rd picture because of the 4th panel (2nd from the right). Forcing German's to applaud Jews for slave labor just seems like such forced normalization of atrocities by the Nazi party.
* The 4th picture shows some more recently erected Holocaust monuments setup around the world.
* In the 5th picture, the last paragraph (prefixed as "32") tells the story of a Riga native who rescued as many Jews as they could by hiding them around multiple locations in Riga.

I supplemented my writeup here with information from this website:
https://todesortriga.lv/about-deportations/Leer más