Šķēde

Members of the 21st Latvian Police Battalion assemble a group of Jewish women for execution on a beach near Liepāja, 15 December 1941.

Memorial cemetery

Šķēde is a suburban settlement near Liepāja, Latvia, in Medze parish. It is located on the north border of the city. Šķēde was the biggest dacha cooperative in Latvia in the times of Latvian SSR. One of Šķēde's notable features are its street names, which are called "lines" and numbered from 1 to 18. Typical Šķēde addresses look like: Šķēde 1-15-2. Until 2005, the main Liepāja landfill was located near Šķēde.^[1]

History

Šķēde is also known for the activities surrounding the Nazi Liepāja massacres in 1941. The main perpetrators were detachments of the Einsatzgruppen, the Sicherheitsdienst or SD, the Ordnungspolizei and Latvian auxiliary police and militia forces. Wehrmacht and German naval forces participated in the shootings. In addition to Jews, the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators also killed Gypsies, communists, the mentally ill and so-called "hostages". In the memory of this event, a memorial stone has been installed in the dunes near the settlement.

References

↑ Kurzemes Vārds, 03.02.2005 (Latvian)

Neighbourhoods of Liepāja

Dienvidrietumu rajons Ezerkrasts Karosta Tosmare Jaunliepāja Vecliepāja Velnciems Zaļa birze Ziemeļu priekšpilsēta Jauna Pasaule Suburban settlements Aucugals Cenkone Cimdenieki Krumini Kapsēde Pērkone Šķēde

The Holocaust in Latvia

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Crimes	Burning of the Riga synagogues Dünamünde Action Jelgava Pogulianski Rumbula Liepāja (Šķēde)

Victims	Jewish people of Latvia Gypsies Joseph Carlebach Simon Dubnow Else Hirsch

Perpetrators	Alois Brunner Rudolf Batz Fritz Dietrich Otto-Heinrich Drechsler Erich Ehrlinger Karl Jäger Friedrich Jeckeln Heinz Jost Konrāds Kalējs Ernst Kaltenbrunner Wolfgang Kügler Rudolf Lange Hinrich Lohse Friedrich Panzinger Hans-Adolf Prützmann Eduard Roschmann Alfred Rosenberg Martin Sandberger Albert Sauer Rudolf Joachim Seck Franz Walter Stahlecker Eduard Strauch

Nazi occupation and organizations	Einsatzgruppen Reichskommissariat Ostland Rollkommando Hamann

Collaborators	Individuals Viktors Arājs Herberts Cukurs Kārlis Lobe Organizations Arajs Kommando Latvian Auxiliary Police Schutzmannschaft

Ghettos and camps	Daugavpils Ghetto Jungfernhof concentration camp Kaiserwald concentration camp Riga Ghetto Salaspils concentration camp

Documentation	Generalplan Ost Jäger Report

Concealment	Sonderaktion 1005

War crimes investigations and trials	Einsatzgruppen Trial Extraordinary (Soviet) State Commission

Righteous among the Nations	Jānis Lipke Roberts Sedols

Memorials	Bikernieki Memorial

Related articles	The Holocaust Occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany

Coordinates: 56°36′41″N 21°01′40″E / 56.6114°N 21.0278°E / 56.6114; 21.0278

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