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Operational period: 1943–1944.
Background
Kaiserwald (Ķeizarmežs) was a Nazi concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks, then part of Reichskommissariat Ostland, in modern-day Latvia.
Kaiserwald was built in March 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia. The first inmates of the camp were several hundred convicts from Germany.
Following the liquidation of the Riga, LiepÄja and Daugavpils (Dvinsk) ghettos in June 1943, the remainder of the Jews of Latvia, along with most of the survivors of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, were deported to Kaiserwald.
In early 1944, a number of smaller camps around Riga were brought under the jurisdiction of the Kaiserwald camp.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/riga-kaiserwald-concentration-camp
Chicago
"Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/riga-kaiserwald-concentration-camp.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-riga-kaiserwald-concentrati,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/riga-kaiserwald-concentration-camp},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}
