“OUR DAYS WERE NUMBERED” GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWS AFTER THEIR DEPORTATION TO OCCUPIED LATVIA AND LITHUANIA
“OUR DAYS WERE NUMBERED” GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWS AFTER THEIR DEPORTATION TO OCCUPIED LATVIA AND LITHUANIA

Author(s): Andrea Löw
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Kauno IX forto muziejus
Keywords: Deportation; German Jews; Riga Ghetto;
Summary/Abstract: From the fall/winter of 1941, the National Socialists systematically deported Jews from the German Reich “to the East”. Thousands of German, Austrian and Czech Jews were deported to occupied Poland, but also to the occupied Baltic states. While those who were deported to Kaunas in November 1941 were shot shortly after their arrival in the Ninth Fort, thousands of Jews deported to Riga tried to somehow make a new life for themselves in the midst of murder and violence and fought for their survival. The article describes the deportations to the Baltic states and the experiences and reactions of those who were not immediately murdered.

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