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Reference number: 1656/3/9/1031a
Catalogue ID: 106498
Subject: GestapoMass killingsRiga (ghetto)
Summary: As a political prisoner at Kaiserwald and Dondangen, the author worked as a car cleaner at the Gestapo Headquarters in Riga and would see Oberscharführer Rudolf Seck, a leading Gestapo-man, nearly every day. He was always with Dr. Lange‘s group, which received the Austrian, Czech and German transports of Jews at the station in order to take them to the camps, where they usually did not arrive, but were shot in the Bikernieku Forest. The men used to boast of their shooting abilities afterwards. Seck was also sent to quell partisan uprisings and liquidate camps. He took the former belongings of his victims for himself. He participated in the “Aktionen“ in the Riga Ghetto in 1941, and associated with Scherwitz there and at Lenta.

The author accuses Seck and the SS-officers Reese, Nickel, Tekemeyer and Otto Mohr of murdering 16 Jews at Salaspils in 1942. Among the victims was a Latvian Jew, called Heppy who was very popular because of his character and the help he had given to thousands of Jews. Whenever people were to be shot or hung the above or other high ranking officers of the Gestapo had to be present at the execution.

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