Salaspils Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Nazi police prison and re-education through labor camp southeast of Riga in Latvia
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The memorial consists of a museum and huge statues signifying the psychological, physical and emotional turmoil of the inhabitants. The life on the camp is shown by the statues: The Mother, The Humiliated, The Unbroken, and Solidarity. The barracks for children have a memorial adorned with toys and flowers. The barracks were all destroyed by the Germans. The solitude of the statues, the deserted camp and the toys, gives it a dreary feeling, and makes one feel very humble of one's own existence. 🌍Salispils concentration camp(German:Kurtenhof) was built by the Jewish labourers captured by the Nazis during 1941. Thousands of people including 12,000 children, Jews, Russian prisoners of war, and political prisoners from the Baltic states were held here. Most of the children were sent to the co
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