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Atrocities?Mass killing, terror, and organized violence with named perpetrators.

Holocaust Collaboration in the Baltics

Local auxiliaries and postwar amnesia

The near-total destruction of Baltic Jewry during 1941-1944 relied heavily on local auxiliary units. Postwar and post-independence memory has often blurred collaboration by folding it into anti-Soviet resistance.

Damage
Local collaboration accelerated Holocaust killing of Baltic Jewish communities.

Lives lost
Tens of thousands of Baltic Jews murdered (vast majority of prewar communities)

Record Points

  • Local police and paramilitary units took part in mass shootings across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
  • Lithuania lost around 95 percent of its Jewish population, one of the highest destruction rates in Europe.
  • Units such as the Arajs Kommando in Latvia carried out killings alongside German forces.
  • Estonia was declared judenfrei by the occupiers after its small Jewish community was murdered.
  • Some wartime perpetrators are commemorated as anti-Soviet fighters, complicating honest reckoning.

Perpetrator(s)

EstoniaLatviaLithuania

Victims

Jewish communities of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Citations