The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Latvia (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liepāja massacres | 1941 | Liepāja and vicinity, including Priekule, Aizpute, and Grobiņa | 5000+ | 5,000+ Jews. as well as gypsies, communists and the mentally ill were killed in a series of mass executions, many public or semi-public, in the city of Liepāja | |
| Burning of the Riga synagogues | July 4, 1941 | Riga | 400 | All synagogues were destroyed and 400 Jews were killed[1] [2] | |
| Rēzekne massacre | July 1941 | Rēzekne | 2,500 | Killings were carried out by a German SD group, which was helped by Selbstschutz men and Arajs Kommando. Beginning in July 1941 and into the fall, about 2,500 Jewish men, women and children were murdered.[3] [4] | |
| Jelgava massacres | Second part of July or early August, 1941 | Jelgava and vicinity | Separate estimates of 1,500, 1,550, and 2,000 victims have been made. | German police along with Latvian auxiliary police murdered the Jewish inhabitants of the city during a series of mass shootings | |
| Varakļāni massacre | August 4, 1941 | Varakļāni | 540 | The Nazis forced 540 remaining Jews to dig their own graves, and then shot them to death | |
| Rumbula massacre | November 30 and December 8, 1941 | Rumbula forest (near Riga) | 25,000 | About 24,000 Latvian Jews and 1,000 German Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga.[5] | |
| Dunamunde massacre | March 15-26, 1942 | Daugavgrīva, Latvia | 3,740 | About 3,740 German, Czech, and Austrian Jews were killed by the Nazi German occupying force and local collaborationists in Biķernieki forest. | |
| Gulbene kindergarten massacre | February 22, 1999 | Gulbene | 4 | 19-year-old Alexander Koryakov entered a Gulbene kindergarten and hacked three girls to death with a meat cleaver. He also killed a teacher and wounded a nurse before trying to escape. After his arrest, he told police that he wanted to become famous. Koryakov was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 7, 1999.[6] [7] [8] [9] |