Riebiņi
| Riebiņi | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
  Riebiņi Riebiņi's location in Latvia | |
| Coordinates: 56°20′29.06″N 26°48′4.03″E / 56.3414056°N 26.8011194°ECoordinates: 56°20′29.06″N 26°48′4.03″E / 56.3414056°N 26.8011194°E | |
| Country |
 Latvia |
| Municipality | Riebiņi |
| Parish | Riebiņi |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 951 |
Riebiņi (Latvian: Riebiņi, Latgalian: Ribiniški, Yiddish: Ribinishok) is a village in and the center of both Riebiņi parish and Riebiņi municipality, Latvia.
History
The village was a Shtetl, most of the inhabitants were Jewish. According to the census of 1897, 533 Jews lived there (91% of the total population). Beginning of the 20th century, many of the Jews left Palestine or the United - States and in 1935, Jews constituted 68% of the total population.
At the end of August 1941, Latvian civil defense police (Aizsargi) arrested Jews and locked them into the synagogues. Then they were moved to Ribinishki Forest (4 km. northwest of the shtetl) and murdered there in a mass execution. There were some local inhabitants from Soluions district who took part in the massacre and several Germans who watched it.[1]