List of massacres in Latvia

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]