Riga by Landyn Freeman https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6 Ruh Roh en-us 2023-03-20 17:41:59 UTC 2023-03-26 19:20:44 UTC hello@padlet.com A few buildings in Riga that are currently built showing that Riga has rebuilt its city bigger and better after the Holocaust. lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529154724 2023-03-23 16:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529154724 1000s of Nazis in a Nazi parade at Riga marching and showing that they took over Riga. lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529156333 2023-03-23 16:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529156333 A Nazi parade going through Riga while Jews watch helplessly. lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529156820 2023-03-23 16:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529156820 A bunch of Jewish people are trying to get on a train to escape the Nazis and go somewhere safe. lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529157227 2023-03-23 16:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529157227 lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529223454 2023-03-23 17:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2529223454 Background Information lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2530762748 Between 1918 to 1940, 40000 Jews were living peacefully in Riga. Their lifestyle and culture was integrated into the Riga community, Jews even sat on the city council. Then right before World War II, in August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia so Riga became the capital of Latvia SSR. Early July 1941 German forces started to occupy Riga and it then became capital of the Reich Commissariat Ostland.]]> 2023-03-24 17:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2530762748 Act of Resistance lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2531972280 Several small groups of jews tried to escape the ghettos and join partisans. In October 1941 some German soldiers found a few members of the Jewish underground just outside one of the ghettos. The German soldiers then seized and killed more than 100 Jews from the ghetto.]]> 2023-03-26 18:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2531972280 Impact lfre5797 https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2531993014 There was sadly little impact of the resistance in Riga. Most of the Jews there were killed and only a few were actually able to escape.]]> 2023-03-26 19:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lfre5797/hm3qmbkp3x224fw6/wish/2531993014