To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (22449 ) 8/17/2001 6:02:05 AM From: Neocon Read Replies (1) | Respond to Both sides of my father's family came from the area around Riga, in Latvia. It is probable that most of my father's family would have died in the Holocaust, had they not come the United States. I think about things like this when I see people act as if their spats are of earth- shaking proportion: The Einsatzgruppen In the Rumbula Forest outside the ghetto in Riga, Latvia, 25,000–28,000 Jews died on November 30 and December 8–9. Beginning in the summer of 1941, Einsatzgruppen killed more than 70,000 Jews at Ponary, outside Vilna (now Vilnius) in Lithuania. They slaughtered 9,000 Jews, half of them children, at the Ninth Fort adjacent to Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania, on October 28. britannica.com
