THE SALASPILS MEMORIAL ENSEMBLE

Memorial Ensemble was created in the place of an extended police prison and labor correctional camp (Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis und Arbeitserziehungslager) of National Socialistic Germany which was located there from 1941 to 1944. It was built by deported Jews from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia (in total there were around 1800 Jews, although about 1000 of them died due to poor working and living conditions). The camp imprisoned Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian civilians and military personal, as well as transit prisoners, including small children from Latgale (region in south east part of Latvia), Belarus and Russia.