Riebiņi
Riebiņi | |
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Village | |
![]() Catholic church in Riebiņi | |
Coordinates: 56°20′29.06″N 26°48′4.03″E / 56.3414056°N 26.8011194°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Municipality | Preiļi |
Parish | Riebiņi |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 951 |
Riebiņi (Latvian: Riebiņi, Latgalian: Ribiniški, Polish: Rybiniszki, Yiddish: Ribinishok) is a village in Riebiņi Parish, Preiļi Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.
History
The village was a shtetl, and most of the inhabitants were Jewish. According to the census of 1897, there were 533 Jews living in the village (91% of the total population). In the beginning of the 20th century, many of the Jews left for Israel or the United States, and in 1935, Jews constituted 68% of the total population.
At the end of August 1941, Latvian civil defense police (reportedly - former members of the Aizsargi)[verify] arrested Jews and locked them into the synagogues. Then they were moved to Ribiniški Forest (4 km. northwest of the shtetl) and murdered there in a mass execution. There were some local inhabitants from Solutions district[verify] who took part in the massacre and several Germans who watched it.[1]
References
- ^ "jewishgen.org". Archived from the original on 2016-04-28.
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