Rumbula massacre
Incident
The Rumbula massacre is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during World War II. Wikipedia
Dates: Nov 30, 1941 – Dec 8, 1941
Also known as: Rumbula, Rumbuli, Rumbula Action, the Big Action, the Jeckeln Action
Ghetto: Riga ghetto
Memorials: On site
Perpetrators: Friedrich Jeckeln, Rudolf Lange, Roberts Osis, Eduard Strauch, and others
Victims: About 24,000 Latvian Jews and 1,000 German Jews