Video: Salaspils - children's death camp near Riga
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On the outskirts of a beautiful Baltic city Riga is one of the most sinister places in the history of Mankind, comparable to Auschwitz or Dachau. This is about memorial complex "Salaspils"located on the site where the concentration camp of the same name was located during the Second World War, known as children's death camp.
In Soviet times, almost every resident of the USSR knew about this place. The song "Salaspils", performed by the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Singing Guitars", brought him additional fame. Now the memorial is practically forgotten even by the inhabitants of the Latvian capital.
Salaspils Children's Camp - Whoever saw, will not forget. There are no more terrible graves in the world, There used to be a camp - Salaspils death camp.
This concentration camp stands out among many others organized by the fascist leadership over a vast territory from Germany to the Soviet Union, in that, in addition to adult prisoners, a huge number of children from six years old and younger were kept here. A separate barrack was built for them, in which juvenile prisoners were not detained. They died from disease, hunger, cold, medical experiences and neglect from adults.
A child's cry was choked And melted like an echo, Woe with sorrowful silence Floats over the Earth, Above you and above me.
Another common cause of death of children in Salaspils was the selection of blood for German soldiers. After several such vampire procedures, the babies died of exhaustion. Every year of the camp's existence, about three thousand juvenile prisoners died in it.
In 1967, on the site where the Salaspils concentration camp was located during the war, the eponymous memorial complex was opened, in the creation of which the best Soviet and Latvian architects and sculptors, including Ernst Neizvestny, took part. The center of this memorial is several sculptural compositions depicting the main categories of prisoners in the camp. The names of the figures speak for themselves: "Mother", "Unbroken", "Humiliated", "Protest", "Oath", "Solidarity", "Rot Front".
The most popular place among visitors in this memorial complex is the foundation of the children's barrack, where people leave toys and sweets they brought with them in memory of the young prisoners of the concentration camp.
On a granite slab Put your candy … He was like you were a child, Like you, he loved them, Salaspils killed him.
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