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Skede Dunes and the Jewish and Russian Memorials.wmv

Come join Liepāja Tours and "TheCeļotājs" visit to Šķēde dunes which is the largest areas of mass murder sites in Liepāja that took place between 1941--1942, located 15 kilometer north of the City of Liepāja and about a kilometer from the roadway leading to the Šķēde dunes and located along the Baltic Sea shore line. As we arrive in the parking lot and the path that leads to the mass killing fields and the Šķēde dunes memorials as we start up the path leading to the area and located along the path leading to the Šķēde dunes is a small memorial plaque dedicated to the some 3000 plus anti-Nazi non-Jews of the total people who where murdered here also. Moving up the path we will come to the Jewish Memorial, which is in the shape if a Jewish "Hanukkah".The total number of people who were murdered at this location differs from one account to another". Located north of the Jewish Memorial is the Russian Memorial. Starting at the south end of the woods, as you look from the memorials is the start of the mass murder trench lines and continual through the woods to north of the woods along the dunes. The grassy area just in front of the Jewish Memorial is the area that the Jews that were to shot were held before being taken to the trench lines to be shot. In contrast to most other Holocaust murders in Latvia, the killings at Liepāja were done in open places. About 5,000 of the 5,700 Jews trapped in Liepāja were shot, most of them in 1941. The killings occurred at a variety of places within and outside of the city, including Rainis Park in the city center, and areas near the harbor, the Olympic Stadium, and the lighthouse. The largest massacre, of 2731 Jews, and 23 communists, happened from 15th to the 17th of December 1941, in the dunes near Šķēde, on an old Latvian army training ground. More is known about the killing of the Jews of Liepāja than in any other city in Latvia except for Riga. The murders in the dunes at Šķēde on the Baltic shore began as early as July 1941. Some 200 Jews were murdered there. During a three-day massacre on 15-17 December 1941, German and Latvian units killed 2,749 Jews, more than half of Liepāja's Jewish population. Preparations for the operation began some days before. On 13 December 1941, Liepāja Police Chief Obersturmbannfuehrer Fritz Diedrich placed an announcement in the Latvian newspaper Kurzemes Vards stating that Jews were forbidden to leave their living quarters on Monday, 15 December and Tuesday, 16 December 1941.