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Thousands of Latvian and German police came into the ghetto, drunk, most of them drunk--shooting, chasing everybody out. Raus [Out]. Everybody Raus [Out]. Schnell [Quickly]. Schnell [Quickly]." They chased everybody out. Whoever couldn't walk was shot on the spot; children, women, elderly men, on the street. And German officers were walking around and telling the elderly, and the weak, and the ones who couldn't walk very well, that they will provide transportation for them. They...it would be much easier for them and they provided special blue busses. At that time we did not know what was happening to them, but they were chased through certain sections of town into the forest, a place called Rumbula. And there Russian prisoners, prisoners of war had prepared large graves, mass graves, and when the people got there they were told to undress, put the shoe in one pile...the shoes in one pile, clothing in another pile, driven to the edges of these mass graves, and machine-gunned. It was going on all night and the next day. Fifteen thousand of our people were massacred in that particular day.
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