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Aigars Urtāns
Assassination of Jews in Madona District
Summary
At the beginning of the war between Germany and the USSR in the summer of 1941,
when Latvia was occupied by the German troops, a crime was commited and many Jewish
civilians were slaughtered in Madona District as well as elsewhere in Latvia. The German
troops overtook many Jewish refugees moving eastwards from other places of Latvia. They
were also killed in Madona District. In the research based on sources available in Latvia,
mostly on the materials of Soviet proceedings, the conditions and chronology of the crime
are described for this part of the country. The list of recognized victims in Madona District
is given in the research appendix.
On 30 June 1941, the German troops started forcing the river Daugava and attacking
in the direction of Madona – Gulbene. In the morning of 2 July 1941, the southern part of
civil parishes in Madona District was crossed and Madona was entered in the evening by
the Nazi units but in the afternoon of 3 July Gulbene was also occupied. German militaries
took the control over the district territory till 9 July. In this period German militaries issued
orders with intercession of Latvian armed units messengers. During this time the first Jewish
refugees, who had failed to evacuate to the East, were detained in the north-eastern
Litene civil parish, but in other places no retaliations against the Jews followed although
there were strong anti-Semitic emotions in a part of society. Arrests of Jews were started
some days after, on 9 July.
Madona
In the first part of July, arrests of Jews started in Madona. They were settled in several
wooden buildings (barracks) situated in the outskirts in the demarcated block as a settlement
for Jews (ghetto). In the middle and the second half of July the arrested Jews from