The victims of the war
Around 100,000 civilians, including no fewer than 70,000 Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazi occupiers and local collaborators in Latvia.
Around 25,000 Jews from Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, around 5,000 from Hungary and 3,000 from Lithuania were brought to and killed in Latvia.
Over 300,000 Soviet prisoners of war were killed or died from starvation and deprivation in camps situated on the territory of occupied Latvia.
150,000 Soviet soldiers perished in fighting for the liberation of Latvia from Nazism.
See: Прибалтийские русские: история в памятниках культуры (1710 - 2010). - Рига, 2010.
