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Kaiserwald (Ķeizarmežs) was a Nazi concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks in modern-day Latvia. Kaiserwald was built in March 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia. [1] The first inmates of the camp were several hundred convicts from Germany.
The camp was on Subocz Street, where a monument to the concentration camp subcamp has stood since 1993. [1] 6: Vilna: Vilnius: September 1943: July 1944: Hospital. About 80 Jews worked here until the shootings in Aukštieji Paneriai and Ninth Fort in July 1944. [1] 7: Daugeliai: September 27, 1943: Mid-July 1944: Jewish forced labor camp, brick ...
Roschmann is sometimes described as the commandant of the Kaiserwald concentration camp, which was located on the north side of Riga. Kaufmann however gives the Kaiserwald commandant as an SS man named Sauer who held the rank of Obersturmbannführer. [29] Jack Ratz, a Latvian Jewish survivor, came face to face with Roschmann in Lenta at the age ...
Most of the camp SS leadership was middle-class and came from the war youth generation , who were hard-hit by the economic crisis and feared decline in status. Most had joined the Nazi movement by September 1931 and were offered full-time employment in 1933. [57]
Mežaparks (German: Kaiserwald) is a neighbourhood of Northern District in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It consists of a residential area to the South and a large urban park to the North of the same name – Mežaparks. The neighbourhood is located on the western shore of Lake Ķīšezers. The name is literally translated as "forest park".
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July 1943: Transfer of ghetto occupants to Kaiserwald (Mežaparks) concentration camp begins. 8 Oct 1943: Transfer of Liepāja Ghetto survivors to Riga Ghetto 2 Nov 1943: About 2,000 people, including children, their caregivers, the old and the sick, are transported from the ghetto to Auschwitz concentration camp.
The rest of the camp doctors divided up the remaining areas of the camp (men's camp, women's camp, etc.), according to the duty roster. The medical care of prisoners was secondary to their main tasks. Of primary importance were camp hygiene to prevent disease and maintaining prisoners' capacity to work.