Salaspils concentration camp - Latvia
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N 56° 52.463 E 024° 18.082
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Salaspils concentration camp, established at the end of 1941 at a point 18 km southeast of Riga.
Waymark Code: WMT7D2
Location: Latvia
Date Posted: 10/08/2016
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"Work Education Camp (Polizeigegfängnis und Arbeitserziehungslager), also known as camp Kurtenhof after the German name for the city of Salaspils. ... The camp site was prepared in October 1941 by Soviet prisoners of war from the Salaspils branch camp Stalag 350/Z of the Riga of base camp 350 and by deported Czech Jews as well as few German Jews from KZ Jungfernhof. In the middle of January 1942 at least 1,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto were forced to work building the camp. Insufficient accommodation and sanitary conditions, lack of nutrition and severe cold weather caused an extraordinarily high number of deaths.
In 1967 a memorial was established in Salaspils, which included an exhibit room, several sculptures and a large marble block. "
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