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Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp

Nazi concentration camp in Riga, Latvia (1943-44)
Organization nazi_concentration_camp Q697912

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
Nazi concentration camp, concentration camp[4]
Native label
Riga-Kaiserwald[26]

Status and dates

Inception
1943[23]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
October 13, 1944[24]

Location

Country
Latvia[3]
Location
Riga, Generalbezirk Lettland[6][7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 56.997°, 24.131°, 🗺️ 56.950°, 24.100°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Riga[2]

Relations

Child organization or unit
Riga-Heereskraftfahrzeugpark concentration camp, Riga (Truppenwirtschaftslager), Riga (Reichsbahn) concentration camp, Riga (Balastdamm) concentration camp, Dondangen I concentration camp, Krottingen concentration camp, Riga (Mühlgraben) concentration camp, Riga-Strasdenhof concentration camp, Elley-Meiten concentration camp, Riga-Spilwe concentration camp, Dondangen II concentration camp, Riga (Lenta) (SD-Werkstätte) concentration camp, Kurben concentration camp, Riga-Strasdenhof (AEG/VEF) concentration camp, Riga (Heereskraftfahrzeugpark, Hirtenstrasse) concentration camp, Riga (Dünawerke) concentration camp[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Parent organization or unit
Schutzstaffel[25]
More facts +2
Catalog code
camps/788[22]
Operator
Nazi Germany[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ķeizarmežs Concentration Camp en Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp en Mežaparks Concentration Camp en KZ Riga-Kaiserwald da Kaiserwald de KZ Riga de Konzentrationslager Riga-Kaiserwald de Konzentrationslager Kaiserwald de KL Riga-Kaiserwald de KL Kaiserwald es Campo de concentracion de Kaiserwald es Campo de concentración de Kaiserwald fa اردوگاه کار اجباری کایزروالد fi Kaiserwaldin keskitysleiri fr Riga-Kaiserwald he קיזרולד he קייזרוואלד he קייזרוולד it campo di concentramento di Riga-Kaiserwald it Kaiserwald
🔖 Identifiers · 10
VIAF cluster ID
136214796
Library of Congress authority ID
n97050711
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Kaiserwald piemineklis.jpg ↗
Exact match
data.niod.nl
FactGrid item ID
Children of the Gods
Freebase ID
/m/040j13
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007513528605171
Topic's main category
Category:Kaiserwald concentration camp
WW2 Thesaurus Camp List ID
3672
Yale LUX ID
group/3b45f38c-b819-4543-b589-054f66668f71

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
concentration camp, Nazi concentration camp
Location 2
Riga, Generalbezirk Lettland
Country 1
Latvia
FactGrid item ID 1
Children of the Gods
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Riga
Operator 1
Nazi Germany
Parent organization or unit 1
Schutzstaffel
Residents 1
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
← Commander of (DEPRECATED) 1
Albert Sauer
← Place of detention 1
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim
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Summary

Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp is a Nazi concentration camp[1].

Related Entities

Latvia Nazi Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Ivario · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent organization or unit → Schutzstaffel
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Riga
    Inception → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 56.996944444444, 'lon': 24.131388888889}, {'lat': 56.95, 'lon': 24.1}
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Image: Kaiserwald piemineklis.jpg"
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