In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi Death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews.
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These pictures are among the rare Photographs from the first period of the extermination, during which over 800 000 Jews from the Baltic to the Black Sea were shot to death.
The perpetrators took pictures of the December killings.
The majority were women and children, most men having already been shot during the summer.
In December 1941, on a shore near the Latvian city of Liepaja, Nazi Death squads (the Einsatzgruppen) and local collaborators murdered in three days more than 2,700 Jews