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Latvia’s Parliament Approves $46 Million in Holocaust and Soviet Reparations
The Jewish community will be reimbursed for hundreds of buildings that were expropriated during World War II.
In 1940, the Soviets occupied Latvia and nationalized private property. Nazi Germany invaded shortly thereafter, killing, with local assistance, 90 percent of Latvia’s 93,000 Jews—many in a two-day mass shooting in the Rumbula forest. When the country became independent in 1991, following the fall of the Soviet Union, property was denationalized and Latvians reclaimed it. But, as Emma Bubola writes, “most Jewish owners had been killed in the Holocaust, and many of their homes, baths, slaughterhouses, orphanages, and synagogues became state property.” Now, following years of negotiations, the Jewish community of Latvia will receive compensation.
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Latvia’s Parliament Approves $46 Million in Holocaust and Soviet Reparations
The Jewish community will be reimbursed for hundreds of buildings that were expropriated during World War II.