Maxim Kantor. The dustpan (№ 273369)

Today, when veterans of the Latvian SS division carried out the jubilee parades and the Soviet invaders to commemorate the annexation of Latvia fortieth year, is not accepted to remember, in the forty-first, the town consisted of German troops and that was then. And that's what it was. The first of July the German troops entered Riga, and for the fourth fourth of July Latvian nationalists (from the organization "Perkonkrust") burned - along with people - the Great choral synagogue. For three days burned twenty synagogues. All of July the Latvian nationalists have been arrests of Jews who put the Jews in the Central prison. 23rd August, it was established the Riga ghetto, where he placed 29th of thousands of Jews, kept there until November, and in November, SS-obergruppenführer Friedrich Acceln ordered the destruction of the ghetto. On the night of 30 November 1941 in the Rumbula forest and shot 26 thousands of Jews, including 8 thousand children under ten years of age.