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Children's health Camp"Albatros" - Riga seaside, Latvia
Location:
Youth tourist recreation complex "Albatros" located in the village of Kesterciems, 55 km from Riga, 30 km from Jurmala, on the seashore. This is a beautiful pine forest, beautiful dunes, an excellent sandy beach, unique ecology, positive energy all year round. And, of course, the most important thing is the healing effect: sea air, walks and games in nature. And friends, sea, sun and starry evenings will make life in the camp even brighter.
The educational and exciting program of the international camp "Albatros" will ensure continuity of education and upbringing in summer period, will contribute to the acquisition of new social experience, the discovery of talents and organizational abilities of a creative and bright personality in a temporary children's group. The program is quite mobile and provides an opportunity for an individual approach to the interests of each child, and will also help shift participants discover new talents, receive support and recognition, learn to interact, get involved in activities of interest and experience personal and collective success. Motto: “Know yourself, people and the world around you, you will discover secrets and become richer in soul!” At camp "Albatros" you will spend your time interesting and entertaining - participating in competitions, games, discos and exciting events with new friends from Latvia and other countries, attend interesting and educational excursions, and get acquainted with the history and culture of Latvia - a country of the European Union.
The program at the Albatross camp is conducted in Russian, Latvian and, if necessary, in English.
When applying for a visa, you must provide completed forms:
1. Memo for parents >>>
2. Application form for camp "Albatross" >>>
Applications filled out on a computer or by hand (legibly and in block letters) are accepted.
COST OF TOUR AND CHANGE
CHECK IN FOR TWO SHIFT IS POSSIBLE
The cost is indicated in euros.
ARRIVAL DATES |
PROGRAM |
PRICE |
1st shift: |
PROGRAM "FINS UP" |
350 |
2nd shift: |
PROGRAM "ACADEMY OF MAGIC" |
350 |
02/06/17 - 22/06/17 |
PROGRAMS: |
700 |
3rd shift: |
PROGRAM "GREEN POKEMON" |
270 |
4th shift: |
PROGRAM "IN SEARCH OF PIRATE TREASURES" |
315 |
25/06/17 - 09/07/17 |
PROGRAMS: |
610 |
5th shift: |
PROGRAM "JUNGLE ADVENTURES" |
390 |
6th shift: |
PROGRAM "TIME TRAVEL" |
360 |
22/07/17 - 10/08/17 |
PROGRAMS: |
775 |
7th shift: |
PROGRAM "STAR FACTORY" |
360 |
01/08/17 - 20/08/17 |
PROGRAMS: |
745 |
8th shift: |
PROGRAM "BRIGHT COLORS OF SUMMER" |
299 |
11/08/17 - 29/08/17 |
PROGRAMS: |
659 |
Included in price
- Accommodation in 1 - 2-room rooms (3-4 people per room);
- Meals (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, late dinner);
- The program and all master classes and events included in it;
- Visit to the swimming pool;
- Nurse and security around the clock;
Additional charges:
- Registration fee - 30 euros;
- International health insurance for a child as a foreign participant in the Albatross camp program (mandatory) - 1 euro per day;
- Visa (45 euros);
- Road - reserved seat 150 euros (check with the manager) Moscow-Riga-Moscow;
- Transfer Riga - Camp "Albatross" - Riga and services of a meeting representative - 44 euros in both directions;
- Excursions:
More information about the Albatross children's camp:
DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAMS:
1st shift: PROGRAM "FINS UP". Dates: 02/06/17 - 12/06/17.
Cost: 350 EUR.
The purpose of the camp program: to master basic swimming skills or improve existing swimming skills; participate in sports and fun activities at sea; With the help of games and thematic tasks, get acquainted with one of the natural elements - water!
During the entire shift, camp participants will visit the indoor pool 2 times a day, where, under the guidance of a professional trainer, they will master or improve their swimming skills, and will spend as much time as possible actively engaged in swimming. fresh air and at sea, while simultaneously acquiring interesting and useful knowledge about water, they will go on a hike along the sea.
2nd shift: PROGRAM "ACADEMY OF MAGIC". Dates: 12/06/17 - 22/06/17.
Cost: 350 EUR.
The goal of the camp program: to give children the opportunity to plunge into the fascinating world of magic and magic, not using games on the computer and phone, but living every day in new adventures; develop creative imagination and make new friends.
During the shift, each camp participant will be able to feel like a real wizard, get acquainted with real magic, learning to work in a team, trusting their own strengths and the fact that good forces always win. And who knows, perhaps such famous wizards as Harry Potter, Merlin or Gandalf will drop by at the camp!
3rd shift: PROGRAM "GREEN POKEMONS". Dates: 25/06/17 - 01/07/17.
Cost: 270 EUR.
The purpose of the camp program: to get acquainted with the world around us in an interactive way; learn and study the processes of nature; understand what everyone can do to preserve the wealth of nature.
During the shift, children will learn the legend about the family of Green Pokémon, which every day they will need to find on the camp grounds, in the pine forest near the camp or on the beach in order to get to the treasure chest on the final day of the shift. With the help of games, experiments and educational master classes, participants get acquainted with various topics: earth and planet, plants, water, birds and animals, forests and trees, health and nutrition, transport, waste, etc., while developing communication skills and teamwork. Together with Green Pokemon, participants will make crafts using natural materials, and will also go on a real expedition! And, of course, it won’t be without fun, adventures and surprises!
4th shift: PROGRAM "IN SEARCH OF PIRATE TREASURES". Dates: 02/07/17 - 09/07/17.
Cost: 315 EUR.
The purpose of the camp program: learn to work in a team; develop Creative skills; get acquainted with the art of navigation and the traditions of local fishermen; improve sports skills.
Children are invited to the camp by the famous pirate Blackbeard! His ship was wrecked by other pirates, and he himself was thrown ashore at the Albatross camp along with a strange bottle. After opening the bottle, the pirate finally finds a long-lost map that shows the path to the treasure chest. Realizing that it will be difficult to find the chest alone, Blackbeard invites all camp participants to help! But this news quickly reached the pirates of the Caribbean, who have the goal of finding the treasure first, so the path to the treasure will not be easy! Every day at the camp will be like an adventure, and each participant will be able to prove to himself that he is a real sailor!
5th shift: PROGRAM "ADVENTURES IN THE JUNGLE". Dates: 22/07/17 - 31/07/17.
Cost: 390 EUR.
A real survival camp!
The purpose of the camp program: to gain new knowledge about nature; develop cooperation skills between camp participants; learn to work in a team.
During the shift, Albatross will turn into the jungle of South America, where little-known Indian tribes still exist - these are the camp participants. They will study the life of the Indians, master the school of survival, cook their own food, get acquainted with nature and experience many new and interesting moments in cooperation with each other in their tribe, as well as with other tribes.
6th shift: PROGRAM "TIME TRAVEL". Dates: 01/08/17 - 10/08/17.
Cost: 360 EUR.
The purpose of the camp program: to gain new knowledge about various historical periods, learn more about their traditions; develop creative abilities; improve socialization and cooperation skills.
During the camp, participants will travel through different periods of history (for example, the Stone Age, Renaissance, Hippie, Soviet and Modern periods), learning the traditions and customs of these times through games and decorations. Costume balls, knightly tournaments, hippie musicals and other interesting events - all this will allow you to feel the real atmosphere of that time!
7th shift: PROGRAM "STAR FACTORY". Dates: 11/08/17 - 20/08/17.
Cost: 360 EUR.
The purpose of the camp program: to inspire and motivate each participant to believe in their talents and give them the opportunity to show them; improve your creative and physical skills; improve socialization and cooperation skills.
Children will participate in a game that will introduce them to the world of show business (music, dance, theater and other creative expressions). Everyone will have the opportunity to become a "star" and compete with others, improve their abilities or maybe discover their talents only during the camp! Master classes, concerts, photo sessions, educational and creative clubs... And most importantly, the final Gala concert with prizes from the “sponsors”!
Children's camps in Riga are open and closed, daytime and round-the-clock, language and sports... Some camps have “away residences” - that is, recreation centers or sports centers outside the city or in the vicinity of Riga.
There are camps established by non-governmental organizations, including various societies and religious bodies. Some of them are open-type camps, that is, intended for any children. The only limitation may be age.
Most of the summer camps in Riga are closed camps. They are intended for children who are engaged in certain sports sections or mugs. Such camps are a continuation educational process, which lasted the entire academic year.
There are also open camps. They are intended for children of a specific age. They are usually organized by schools and children's and youth centers. Traditionally, children spend the first part of the day in an institution, in the second half of the day they go/go somewhere - on an excursion, to a bowling alley, to the sea, to a cinema, they organize games and creative workshops on the street, etc. In general, in camps they always make sure that children do not get bored.
Open day camps are scattered throughout different areas of Riga. If the camp is open, then it does not have to be attended by a child from the specific district or school where it operates. We emphasize: such camps are available to any children - the main thing is that the age is appropriate.
What do parents need to know when sending their child to summer camp?
✓ Think - did you choose the right camp? Many parents want the summer to be spent with maximum benefit and forget about the interests and abilities of the child. It is hardly worth sending a child with basic knowledge of English to a group where everyone is already up to intermediate, or trying to place an unathletic boy in a team that has been closely involved in hockey for four years now.
✓ Consult with your child, understand whether he wants to go to camp or not. Maybe your children are not yet “ripe” for independent rest?
✓ An important stage is paperwork. First of all, it is worth signing an agreement with the camp, which will spell out prerequisites to be fulfilled by both parties.
✓ The camp director will definitely ask the parent to fill out a questionnaire, where they must answer the questions quite openly and honestly. It is especially important to describe in detail the child’s characteristics (behavior or health) so that the camp can respond adequately in any situation.
✓ If a particular camp is not ready to accept a child, for example, the premises may not be adapted to a child with special needs, then they will advise which camp to go to, where there will be suitable conditions.
✓ The camp director must have the appropriate documents, for example a permit issued by the State Center for Educational Content. The certificate confirms that the leader has undergone appropriate training and knows how the camp should be organized. The camp itself must also have all permits and certificates.
✓ Don't ignore general meetings. Very often, camp leaders hold a meeting in advance at which they inform parents about the educational and leisure program, about things that they must take with them, and also provide all contact numbers for communication. If there is no such meeting, then parents have the right to ask all practical questions to the leaders and take all contact numbers, know about the internal rules and routine in the camp.
✓ Talk to your child, tell him about basic rules of behavior and safety to avoid unpleasant surprises. Usually these rules are spelled out in detail by the camps themselves and both children and parents are introduced to them. It is important to respect the agreed time for the children to visit, so as not to impede the work of the camps.
When and how do summer camps operate in Riga?
Opening hours for summer camps vary. Some take children for 7-10 days, others for 10-15. If this is a day camp, then it accepts children according to the principle of the adult working week - five days a week on weekdays, from 8-9 to 17-18 hours. Most camps plan to work only until Ligo. But there are offers that are available in July and August.
How much does a summer camp cost in Riga?
The budget of the camps differs depending on how intense the program is, how many excursions, how long the camp is...
For camps municipal institutions, the cost for the visit specified in the contract is the only one that parents must pay. Swimming pool, excursions, meals - usually all this is already included in the prescribed contract amount.
Where can I find information about summer camps in Riga?
List of summer camps organized by Riga educational establishments, can be found on the website www.e-skola.lv (in the section “Aktuāli” (column on the right) there should be a link called Departamenta padotībā esošo izglītības estāžu atvērtās nometnes 2018. gada vasarā). Information about the camps of non-governmental organizations is in the section “Aktuāli” - Biedrību, nodibinājumu un reliģisko organizāciju nometnes 2018.gada vasarā.
Places in co-financed camps are sold out very quickly, so in the list you can see a note about which camps still have free places and which no longer have them. It is better to keep track of current information from April/May.
What to do for a child in summer in Riga
✓ Free time centers. A child comes to such a center and can decide for himself what he wants to do - play chess or backgammon, take part in a “workshop” (educational and creative events), competitions or relay races, read books or magazines... He can simply be in the center, doing nothing.
Photo: Rīgas houses Izglītības, kultūras un sporta departaments
✓ Free time projects - entertainment and educational events in summer in Riga. The directions are very different - sports, art, entertainment, how well you know the city, etc.. The locations of the events are very different, but mostly they take place in the vicinity of Riga, and not in the center.
✓ Libraries in Riga also offer various services in summeractivities- excursions around neighborhoods, meetings with interesting people, creative workshops and just reading books - including those assigned for the summer. These events last for several hours a day, but are quite intense and interesting. For children of different ages.
Children's visits to all these projects in Riga are free. Not always, but pre-registration is required. This is usually indicated in general information about a specific project.
Additional information is available on the website www.e-skola.lv (in the “Aktuāli” section). Information about events in libraries - on the website of the Riga central library www.rcb.lv in the section - www.bibliotekaberniem.rcb.lv
Information prepared based on materials from the website Riga.lv
Children's camps in Riga, Jurmala, Latvia - which camps will operate in the summer of 2019
Sports and educational camp in Saulkrasti
Languages - Latvian/Russian
Master classes, physical education, workshops...
Shifts - 13 days
Children's age - from 10 to 15 years
Language camp in Jurmala
Languages - English, German, French, Russian
Shifts - from 7 to 21 days
Tourist camp in Latgale
Languages - Latvian/Russian
Orienteering, physical education, swimming...
Shifts - from 8 to 12 days
Children's age - from 8 to 17 years
Robotics camp in Jurmala
Languages - Russian/Latvian
Shift - 10 days
Children's age is 8+.
Scientific, language and sports camp in Riga
Languages - English, Latvian, Russian
Shifts - from 7 days to 3 months
Children's age - from 7 to 16 years
Day camp
Music and dance camp in Jurmala
Languages - Latvian/Russian/English
Shifts - 9 days
Children's age - from 5 to 13 years
Albatross
Languages - English, Latvian, Russian
Shifts - 10 days during the summer
Children's age - from 7 to 17 years
Media camp in Liepaja
Master classes in acting, journalism, media, English
Shifts - from 7 days
Children's age: 10 - 16 years
Day camp
Summer language camp in Riga
Languages - English
Shifts - 10 days
Children's age - from 7 to 16 years
Day camp
Film camp in Riga
Languages - Russian/Latvian/English
Shifts - 5 days
Children's age - from 8 to 12 years
Camp with horses in Latgale
Horse training
Shift - 9 days
Children's age - from 10 to 16 years
Sports and entertainment camp in Cesis
Shift - 10 days
Children's age - from 8 to 16 years
International camp English Explorer
Languages - intensive study of English
Shifts - 2 weeks
Children's age - from 10 to 17 years
Tourist camp for guys
Survival School and Young Fighter Course
Shifts - 7 days
Children's age - from 10 to 18 years
Music camp in Riga
Vocals, theory, musical instruments
Shifts - 10 days
Children's age - from 9 to 18 years
Day camp
The train from Vecaki to Parogre always had a transfer in Riga, but I even liked it. I generally liked everything. And the trips themselves under the soothing “thump-thump-thump-thump”, and the summer camp, where my parents took me for two years in a row. One. For as long as a month. This was after 7th and 8th grade. A year earlier, by the way, my independence was tested in a ten-day winter camp in Ogre, and even earlier in a sanatorium in Vaivari.
I liked both the sanatorium and the camps. The main thing is to have freedom, independence and interesting leisure. And this leisure, in addition to the official one, we organized for ourselves during quiet hours. Secret trips to the river, runs to the local kiosk for snacks, playing cards in the gazebos, horror stories at night... It all happened. And it’s wonderful that it happened!
Any camp has its own special flavor, its own mood, its own spirit. This is probably why people either love or hate camps. I have not yet met anyone who is indifferent.
Our eldest daughter, Polina, has reached the age when the “secret” and “early” label is removed from camp life. Therefore, this summer she will go to two camps - a sports camp from her rhythmic gymnastics school and a regular camp. I really hope that she will like it, and that she will gain plenty of emotions, skills, and knowledge.
Perhaps some of you are now actively looking for summer placement for your student. Then this short overview of summer camps should help you!
Children's camp Belochka invites you to relax children from 6 to 13 years old. Camp based in the recreation complex"Mežrozes" which is located in 98 km from the center of Riga, not far from Cesis. The camp area is very spacious, it accommodates several guest houses and cottages, sports grounds(football, basketball, volleyball) large wooden canopy-dining room with stage, outdoor stage, playground, sauna and pond with swimming area.
Camp participants eat5 once per day, food will be prepared on site by chefs from the Jelgava restaurant OTTO, who also specialize in children's food.
A transfer is provided to the camp, which is already included in the price of the tour, so you do not need to pay for it. Usually about 100 children for one shift, i.e. 5 squads. The squad consists of 20 children and two counselors - a guy and a girl. All counselors have experience working with children - our team includes teachers, animators, and sports coaches.
Cost of participation is 290 euros per shift, but we have a pleasant discount system.
This year Kid `s camp Belochka offers two interesting and varied thematic sessions: (1) Space travel - the guys will divide into crews and go on an exciting flight across the planets of our Galaxy! (2) School of Magic - children will plunge into the whirlpool of wonders and magic of the world around them!
Summer camp Resurs invites children to relax aged 7 to 15 years. The parents' meeting will take place on 05/18/17 (Thursday) from 18:00-20:00.
This year camp goes to Ventspils! Big, cozy home with a games room five minutes from the Venta River and 3 km from the sea, as well as a huge territory that will allow you to make noise without disturbing your neighbors, and hold different games on several sites. The program includes exploring the city and the beach, as well as visiting the water park. When the water in the sea has already warmed up, a visit to the Engure coast is planned.
The goal of the camp remains the same - teaching the child independence, self-responsibility, cooperation, the ability to work in a team, and compliance with the rules and norms of communication and behavior. Much attention is also paid to the development of the cognitive sphere, thought processes, attentiveness, perseverance, and self-control.
Summer 2017 3 shifts planned— 14 days (or two stays of 7 days) and 10 days!
Additionally, transportation costs and payment for trips and excursions - 40 EUR - delivery of children to the camp and back to Riga, ice cream and travel snacks! (delivery of a child one way is 5 euros and 15 euros each trip/excursion).
Registration is carried out by phone: 29664039, 29538634 or at [email protected].
In the recreation camp for children and youth "Albatross" children from the CIS countries, the European Union and other countries relax and find new friends, because the goal of the camp is to unite children who live in different countries peace.
The main languages of the camp are Latvian and Russian. We accept at the camp children from 7 to 17 years old.
The recreation program is primarily focused on games and activities, bringing children together, identifying new talents and creating an atmosphere of friendship and joy.
The camp is being organized at the youth recreation center “Albatross”, which is located 70 km from Riga, 30 km from the resort town of Jurmala, in Kesterciems, on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The large territory (10 hectares) of the youth recreation center “Albatross” resembles a small park, because the landscaping of “Albatross” was carried out by the Riga Botanical Garden, and therefore unique coniferous and deciduous trees are found here.
The camp offers the following programs:
Included in price: accommodation in 1 – 2-room rooms (3-4 people per room); meals (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, late dinner); the program and all master classes and events included in it; visit to the pool.
The price does not include the bus Riga - camp - Riga (for an additional fee of 7 EUR in one direction, in both directions 14 EUR).
Summer camp “Intelligence” has been presented by the Riga private gymnasium “Maxima” since 2002. Place - recreation center "Silmač i» (Smiltenes novada Launkalnes pagastā). Check-in time in 2017 is from July 8 to July 21. The camp invites children aged 6 to 16 years.
Price camps for the specified period - 450 EUR.
The program includes: accommodation in comfortable houses; healthy 5 meals a day; creative workshops; themed days; various sports; fun and traditional relay races; Beach volleyball; conversations around a big fire; movie nights; game “Orienteering in Silmachi”; swimming in the lake, boating, pedalos and many, many other interesting things.
Forest Camp is a tourist and play summer camp, which has been operating for the seventh year, and where, throughout the entire shift, children learn the basics of tourism - they learn to pitch tents and build shelters, build a fire and cook food on it, navigate using a map, compass and GPS, undergo rope training and then go on a night hike. Also, every day there is a new Big Game, competitions and other events, including night ones.
The camp is located on a large area in a pine forest on the shore of a warm lake far from the city ( former pioneer camp "Victoria", Daugavpils region, for Silene).
Children can expect comfortable accommodation in new modern waterproof tents or summer houses, healthy meals 4 times a day, qualified staff who are passionate about their work and treat children with love and responsibility, swimming in a warm lake, and an interesting and rich program.
On the territory of the camp there is a canteen, a first-aid post, a club, showers and a bathhouse, toilets, and in case of rain there are awnings and a clothes dryer.
Duration first shift 8 days. Duration all other shifts 12 days.
First shift from June 9 to June 16, second shift from June 17 to June 28, third shift from June 29 to July 10, fourth shift from July 11 to July 22, fifth shift from July 23 to August 3, sixth shift from August 4 until August 15th.
Price 12-day Forestcamp camp session: (tents) 168 euros and (houses) 188 euros. 8-day shift: 98 euros for tents and 112 euros for huts.
For more than 20 years, the LITERA language school has been organizing program “Recreation and study in Jurmala”. During the summer, children are given the opportunity to study English, German, French or Spanish, and Russian for foreigners, combining study and intellectual entertainment with relaxation at sea.
In 2017, children from 7 to 15 years old are being enrolled in a camp in Jaundubulti (Jurmala). In a programme: 40 hours of English, German, French; full board, 4 meals a day; accommodation with all amenities in 3-7 bed rooms; picturesque protected area 2 minutes walk to the sea; professional care and supervision by a curator 24 hours a day.
Shift from June 11 to June 22 (from 7 to 12 years old), subject matter: ”LITERA in Jurassic Park” / “LITERA in Jurassic Park”. The main event is “Walking with Dinosaurs”.
Shift from June 25 to July 29, you can choose training lasting 1, 2 or 3 weeks:
Topics: ”LITERA’s Civilizations” / “LITERA’s Civilizations”. The main event is the “Festival of Cultures”.
Topics: ”LITERA on TV” / “LITERA on TV”. The main event is “TV Channel Show”.
Additional services: swimming pool (2 times a week), theater English language, photo studio, music and video production, dancing.
Summer camp “Classics” is organized on the basis of a private school of the same name on the seashore in Saulkrasti. It has its own team of teachers and children flock here for the summer not only from all over Latvia, but also from Germany, America, Israel, Russia, and England. There are no shifts as such; you can join the program at any time, subject to availability.
For the 21st year now, Classic has been gathering its old and new friends aged 6 to 16 years.
IN summer season In 2017, KLASSIKA offers 9 thematic shifts; a distinctive feature of the shifts is the opportunity to master useful skills in different areas of life, as well as gain positive experience from new creative experiments. The basis of the content of the shifts is an intellectual and sports orientation, combined with endless creativity.
More information about the topics and schedule of each shift can be found on the official camp page.
I hope this one short selection summer camps will help you in choosing leisure activities for your child. We have already made our choice for this summer and will definitely share our impressions!
P.S. All photos and information are taken from the websites of the camps themselves.
“Until recently, there was no common, unified information base in Latvia about the Salaspils concentration camp - neither in reality, since the archives are very scattered, nor even more so in the virtual space.” And so one person, local historian Vlad Bogov, created a website on the Internet where he posted materials about this camp that he had collected from many scattered archives. Until the recent past, many facts published on the site were unknown to few people or were kept silent."
http://mahrov.4bb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=2351This essay is dedicated to the children's concentration camps that existed in Latvia during the German occupation in 1941-1944, the places of children's burials and the acts of extermination of minor prisoners. I recommend that especially impressionable people refrain from reading.
Somehow it happened that, remembering the horrors of the Great Patriotic War, we are talking about killed soldiers, prisoners of war, extermination and humiliation of civilians. But meanwhile, this so-called The category of civilians can be somewhat expanded. One more category of innocent victims can be identified - children. For some reason, it is not customary for us to talk about these victims; they are simply lost against the background of the overall horrific death toll. Personally, I have not yet come across detailed research on the topic of extermination of children on the territory of Latvia.
However, often these little prisoners, having barely learned to pronounce individual words in their lives and were still unsteady on their feet, were kept without proper care and supervision, they were also killed, they were also mocked, their conditions of detention in the camps were no different from the conditions of detention adults...
To begin with, I will say a few words about the source of information. The information presented below is collected on the basis of materials from the investigation of the atrocities of the German fascists by the State Extraordinary Commission. The most extensive information on children’s camps is provided by the archival file entitled “Children’s camps and burials” (LVVA P-132, ap. 30, l. 27.), but quite a lot of fragmentary information is scattered throughout the P-132 fund, dedicated to reports and certificates commissions. Part of the information was gleaned from the file dedicated to the “Acts and Protocols forensics"(LVVA P-132, ap. 30, l. 26.), there is some information about children’s camps in the file where “Informations about those killed in Salaspils” are collected (LVVA P-132, ap. 30, l. 38.) , some of the data can be found in the file “On the victims of the Nazis in the LSSR” (LVVA P-132, ap. 30, l. 5.). All the information presented is the testimony of eyewitnesses, witnesses, participants in the events, both the prisoners themselves, and from interrogations of the accused guards and police officers.
According to the data of the Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of Crimes of the Nazi Invaders, the number of exterminated children on the territory of Latvia reaches 35,000 people. In the materials of the Riga trial of war criminals in 1946, the number of exterminated children in camps on the territory of Riga is stated as 6,700; in addition, more than 8,000 who died in the ghetto should be added to this figure. One of the largest graves of children in Latvia is in Salaspils - 7,000 children, another is in the Dreilini forest in Riga, where about 2,000 children are buried.
Children's camps in Latvia
E.Birznieka-Upisha street 4 (orphanage)
Gertrudes street 5 (organization "People's Aid")
Krasta St. 73 (Old Believers Community)
126 Kr. Barona St. (nunnery)
Kapselu street (orphanage)
In Latvia:
Orphanage in Bulduri
Orphanage in Dubulti
Orphanage in Maiori
Orphanage in Saulkrasti
Orphanage in Strenci
Orphanage in Baldone
Orphanage in Igat
Orphanage in Griva
Orphanage in Liepaja
In addition, children were kept in separate barracks in the Salaspils concentration camp, in cells of the Riga conscript prison, Riga Central Prison, as well as in other prisons in Latvian cities, children were kept in the SD department at 1 Reimers street, in the prefecture at 7 Aspazijas blvd. and others places.
Hitler's leadership, with stupid pedantry, exterminated the civilian population throughout the occupied territory of the Soviet Union. The masses of murdered children, before their painful death, were used in barbaric ways as living experimental material for inhumane experiments of “Aryan medicine.” The Germans organized a children's blood factory for the needs of the German army; a slave market was formed, where children were sold into slavery to local owners.
According to a special directive from the chief of police, SS Obergruppenführer F. Eckeln, under the pretext of fighting banditry in the temporarily occupied regions of Belarus, Leningrad, Kalinin, and Latgale bordering the LSSR during 1942-44. The local population was systematically driven into special camps in the cities of Riga, Daugavpils, Rezekne and other places in the LSSR. Civilians, called “evacuees,” were herded into concentration camps in inhumane conditions. In the camps, the Germans used a specially developed and thought-out system for the methodical extermination of tens of thousands of people.
Salaspils
In the photo: Liberated children of Salaspils in 1944.
Usually, before the eviction of a village, a punitive detachment burst into it, they burned houses, stole livestock, and plundered property. Many residents were killed on the spot or burned in their homes. Women and children were collected at railway stations, loaded into wagons, nailed up tightly and taken to camps. A week later they were taken to one of the camps or prison.
Witness Molotkovich L.V. from the village of Borodulino, Drissensky district, says: “A German punitive detachment descended on our village of Borodulino and began to burn our houses. Then, in the same order, the children, the eldest of whom was not yet 12 years old, were driven to another barracks, where they were kept in the cold for 5-6 days.”
In the photo: A punitive squad burns a village
The terrible hour for children and mothers in the concentration camp came when the Nazis, having lined up mothers with children in the middle of the camp, forcibly tore the babies away from the unfortunate mothers. Witness M.G. Brinkmane, who was held in the Salaspils concentration camp, says: “In Salaspils, a tragedy of mothers and children unheard of in the history of mankind took place. Tables were placed in front of the commandant's office, all the mothers and children were called, and the smug, well-fed commandants, who knew no boundaries in their cruelty, lined up at the table. They forcibly snatched children from their mothers' hands. The air was filled with the heartbreaking cries of mothers and the cries of children.”
Children, starting from infancy, were kept by the Germans separately and strictly isolated. The children in a separate barracks were in the state of small animals, deprived of even primitive care. Behind infants 5-7 year old girls were courting. Every day, German guards carried out the frozen corpses of dead children from the children's barracks in large baskets. They were dumped into cesspools, burned outside the camp fence, and partially buried in the forest near the camp.
Mass continuous mortality of children was caused by experiments for which juvenile prisoners of Salaspils were used as laboratory animals. German killer doctors injected sick children with various liquids, injected urine into the rectum, and forced them to take various drugs internally. After all these techniques, the children invariably died. The children were fed poisoned porridge, from which they died a painful death. All these experiments were supervised by the German doctor Meisner.
The forensic medical commission, having examined the territory of the garrison cemetery in Salaspils, found that part of the cemetery with an area of 2,500 square meters was completely covered with mounds at intervals of 0.2 to 0.5 meters. When only one-fifth of this territory was excavated, 632 child corpses aged 5 to 9 years were discovered in 54 graves; in most graves, the corpses were located in two or three layers. At a distance of 150 m from the cemetery towards railway the commission discovered an area measuring 25x27 meters, the soil of which was saturated with an oily substance and ash and containing parts of unburnt human bones, including many bones of children 5-9 years old, teeth, articular heads of femurs, humerus, ribs and other bones.
The commission divided these 632 children's corpses into age groups:
A) infants - 114
B) children from 1 to 3 years old - 106
C) children from 3 to 5 years old - 91
D) children from 5 to 8 years old - 117
D) children from 8 to 10 years old - 160
E) children over 10 years old - 44
Based on investigation materials, witness testimony, and exhumation data, it was established that during the three years of the existence of the Salaspils camp, the Germans killed at least 7,000 children, some who were burned and some who were buried in the garrison cemetery.
Witnesses Laugulaitis, Elterman, Viba and others say: “Selected children under the age of 5 were placed in a separate barrack, where they contracted measles and died in droves. Sick children were taken to the camp hospital, where they were bathed in cold water, from which they died within a day or two. In this way, in the Salaspils camp, the Germans killed more than 3,000 children under the age of 5 in one year.”
From the materials on the accused F. Eckeln, witness Saleyuma Emilia, born in 1886: “While imprisoned in the Salaspils camp since August 21, 1944, I saw that in a separate barrack No. 10B there were more than 100 Soviet children under the age of 10 years . At the beginning of September 1944, the Germans took all these children away and shot them. ... In January 1942, I personally saw how the German fascists at the Shkirotava station loaded 30-40 people at a time from the transported trains of children into green hermetically sealed vehicles. The car doors were tightly locked, then the children were taken away. After 30 minutes the cars returned. I know that the Germans exterminated children with gases in such cars. I can’t say how many children were gassed, but it was a lot.”
From a statement by citizen Viba Evelina Yanovna, born in 1897: “The Germans placed the selected children in a special camp barracks, and they died there in dozens. In March 1942 alone, 500 children died, those caring for the children told me about this. The dead children were buried in the cemetery, where the dead in the camp were buried, along the same road where they were led to execution, only to the left. Thus, I know that more than 3,000 children died and the same number were taken somewhere.”
Ten-year-old Natalya Lemeshonok (all five brothers and sisters - Natalya, Shura, Zhenya, Galya, Borya - were sent to the Salaspils concentration camp) talks about the lawlessness and truly brutal treatment: “We lived in a barracks, they didn’t let us go outside. Little Anya constantly cried and asked for bread, but I had nothing to give her. A few days later, we were taken to the hospital along with other children. There was a German doctor there, in the middle of the room there was a table with different instruments. Then they lined us up and said that a doctor would examine us. It was not clear what he was doing, but then one girl screamed very loudly. The doctor began stamping his foot and shouting at her. Coming closer, you could see how the doctor injected a needle into this girl, and blood flowed from her arm into a small bottle. When it was my turn, the doctor snatched Anya from me and laid me on the table. He held a needle and injected it into my arm. Then he walked up to younger sister and did the same to her. We all cried. The doctor said that there was no point in crying, since we would all die anyway, otherwise we would be useful... A few days later, they took our blood again. Anya died." Natalya and Borya survived in the camp.
According to the testimony of witnesses, former prisoners of the Salaspils concentration camp, more than 12,000 children passed through this camp alone from the end of 1942 to the spring of 1944.
The direct exterminators of children in the Salaspils concentration camp were commandants Nikel and Krause, and their assistants Hepper, Berger, and Teckemeyer.
To get rid of the children as quickly as possible, cars with armed SS men drove to different camps and took children away from their parents. Children were torn from their arms, thrown into cars and taken away to be exterminated. Cases have been established of parents poisoning their own children to save them from a terrible death. The Nazis also threw dying children into the back and took them away.
Witness Ritov Ya.D. The commission showed: “There were about 400 children in the concentration camp in Riga in 1944. An order came from Berlin for the complete extermination of these children. The said order ordered that all children from the concentration camp be taken away to be killed. An SS truck arrived at the camp, containing about 40 children gathered from other camps. They were guarded by 10 SS men armed with machine guns. Corporal Schiffmacher gave the order to hand over all 12 children who were in the camp to the SS convoy. Parents hid their children... under the threat of shooting all the parents along with their children, and taking 25 hostages for one child, the children were collected. 4 mothers managed to poison their children. These children were also thrown into the truck in their dying state by the SS. There were incredible scenes of parents saying goodbye to their children. One eight-year-old girl, standing at the side of the truck, said to her sobbing mother: “Don’t cry, mom, this is my destiny.”
Witness Epshtein-Dagarov T.I. shows: “As I later established... cars with children arrived at the Mezaparks concentration camp on the same day. There they picked up a new batch of children from the concentration camp and moved on. I learned from the drivers that the car with the children went to the Shkirotava station, where the children were poisoned.”
Thus, at the last moment of their retreat from Riga, the Germans destroyed up to 700 children. These acts of violence were led by: General Commissioner Drexler, his employees Ziegenbein, Windgassen, Krebs.
Based on data from the Riga OAGS, as well as numerous testimonies, 3,311 children, mainly infants, died during the period of occupation, including during the year and a half of 1941-43. - 2,205, and for 9 months of 1944 - 1,106 children.
Prisons
The extermination of children also took place in the Gestapo and prisons. The dirty and smelly prison cells were never ventilated or heated, even in the most severe frosts. On dirty, cold floors, infested with various insects, unhappy mothers were forced to watch the gradual decline of their children. 100 grams of bread and half a liter of water - that’s all their meager ration for the day. There was no medical assistance provided.
During the bloody massacres of prisoners in prisons, where the Germans shot up to several hundred people, no exceptions were made for children. They died just like adults. Sometimes they “forgot” to shoot the children and they continued to drag out their miserable existence alone until the next execution.
During interrogation, the former warden of the Riga Central Prison testified that in the fourth building of the prison alone (there were six such buildings in total), where she worked for four months, at least 100 small children were kept and shot, and 4 children died of starvation.
The accused Veske V.Yu., born in 1915, a former prisoner of the Riga urgent prison, testifies that at the beginning of 1942, 150 children were shot in the urgent prison.
From the interrogation protocol of the accused Veske V.Yu., from November 1943 to June 1944, she worked as a nurse in the Salaspils concentration camp: “In the hospital in Salaspils there were children evacuated from Russia, there were 120 children’s beds in the hospital, 180 adults. Children mostly suffered from measles , dysentery, adults - typhus, pneumonia. At least 5 children died every day from 120 places. Children died from exhaustion, lack of care medical care and premeditated murder." The court file indicates that Veske Velta personally administered lethal injections to sick children.
Pregnant women languishing in the dungeons of the Gestapo were subjected to severe beatings during interrogations along with other prisoners. Zhukovskaya I.V. testified to the commission that she personally saw atrocities against pregnant women and babies while escorting groups of prisoners through the streets of Riga: “I will never forget one fact of German atrocities that occurred in my presence. The Germans were chasing a group of people, beating them with sticks. Suddenly one pregnant woman stopped and screamed wildly - she began to have labor pains. The German fascist guard began to beat her with a stick, and she immediately gave birth. The German immediately killed the woman and the newborn, smashing their heads with a stick.”
Lawyer K.G. Munkevich, who was held in the Central Prison for more than a year, told the commission: “Since July 1, 1941, the Central Prison began to be filled with prisoners along with their young children. Children were kept together with adults under the same conditions of diet and nutrition. Children shared the fate of their parents and died the same death as their parents. Many women were imprisoned while pregnant. Many pregnant women were shot, many gave birth right there in prison, and then were taken to the forest and shot along with their babies. If you imagine the period from 1941 to 1943, while I was kept in prison, about 3,000-3,500 children were taken away from there and shot or otherwise killed. Of course, this number is approximate, but I think it is lower than the actual number.”
According to the investigation, the commission found that the Germans killed about 3,500 children in Riga prisons and Gestapo dungeons. In the same way, the Germans committed atrocities against children in other cities of Latvia. For example, 2,000 children were exterminated in Daugavpils, 1,200 in Rezekne. Thus, 6,700 children were exterminated in Riga in prisons and the Gestapo during the period of German occupation. The organizers of the extermination of children in prisons were the German administration represented by Birkhan, Viya, Matels, Egel, Tabord, Albert.
In the spring of 1943, retreating German troops took with them the entire population from the occupied regions of the USSR. At this time, the flow of children into camps and prisons in Latvia increased, and therefore Latvian prisons are no longer able to accommodate prisoners. They begin to be destroyed en masse.
Children's camps in Riga
In Riga, special distribution points for the sale of children were created, offering live goods from 5 to 12 years of age. Here are some of the addresses of these points: in the courtyard of “People's Help” at 5 Gertrudes St., in the Grebenshchikovsky community at 73 Krasta St., in orphanage on the street Jumaras 4 (Birznieka-Upisa street) and in many others. Children who could not be used for work, aged from one to five years, were taken to a convent at 126 Kr. Barona Street. Children's camps were also located in Dubulti, Saulkrasti, Igat, Strenci.
In the photo: Former orphanage on E.Birznieka-Upisa street 4
Witness Richard Matisovich Murnieks, born in 1896, says: “In June 1944 I entered the Riga orphanage infants, where he stayed until the day the Germans left Riga. There were many Russian children under the age of 3 in the house. Children came to the orphanage from the Salaspils concentration camp and the Riga prison. The German command had not previously raised questions about the evacuation of children, but in October 1944, before the German troops left Riga, our children’s home was taken to a ship. The cars with the children were accompanied by German soldiers. In total, 150 babies were taken from the orphanage. Since the children were brought from Salaspils and the Riga prison, I believe that the children were taken onto the ship for the purpose of exterminating them.”
In April 1943, covered German military vehicles approached the convent in Riga at 126 Kr. Barona Street. They are accompanied by German soldiers under the command of an officer. A terrible picture was revealed to the eyes of eyewitnesses: not a sound was heard from the closed bodies, children's voices were not heard. When the tarpaulin is pulled back, dozens of tortured, sick and exhausted children are revealed. They are huddled and shivering from the cold. The rags barely cover the small bodies covered with abscesses, lichens and scabs. Children are barefoot, without hats. From under the dirty rags that barely cover the unfortunates, cardboard boxes hanging on a rope can be seen on their chests. The signs have the following inscriptions: last name, first name, age. A number of tags contain one word: "Unbekanter" (unknown). The children huddle together and are silent. The children's barracks in the camp, eternal fear and threats, torture and terror of sadists weaned the little sufferers from speaking. The car follows the car. The Nazis brought 579 children aged from one to five years to the monastery. The transport is led by a German officer from the SD Schiffer.
In the photo: Convent on Kr. Barona street 126
Witness Skoldinova L.P. shows: “When I saw the first car, the body of which was full of children from one to five years old, sitting motionless, huddled from the cold, because... They were dressed in some rags, and a chill went down my skin. There were tears in everyone’s eyes, even the men.”
Witness Grabovskaya S.A. says: “The children looked old. They were thin and extremely sickly, and the main thing that struck them was the lack of childish gaiety, talkativeness and playfulness. They could stand for hours with their arms folded if you don’t sit them down, and if you sit them down, they sit just as quietly with their arms folded.”
Witness Osokina V.Ya. said: “A truck covered with a tarpaulin appeared. He drove into the yard and stopped. It seemed to everyone that it arrived empty, because... There was no sound coming from it, no crying, no childish cry. And the most characteristic thing in these pale, emaciated faces of the boys was the expression of extraordinary neglect and fear, and in some, the expression of complete indifference and dullness. The children did not speak at all for 2-3 days. Afterwards they explained this by saying that the Germans in the camp forbade them to cry and talk under pain of being shot.”
The Social Department, subordinate to the fascist authorities, headed by director Silis, and the German organization “People's Aid,” acting on the instructions of the commander of the German SD police of Latvia, Strauch, distributed children from collection points to rural farms as farm laborers. In the spring of 1943, advertisements appeared in newspapers about the distribution of labor.
Newspaper “Tēvija” of March 10, 1943, page 3: “Shepherds and auxiliary workers are distributed. A large number of teenagers from the border regions of Russia would like to be shepherds and auxiliary workers in the village. “People's Aid” took over the distribution of these teenagers. Agricultural households can submit their applications for shepherds and auxiliary workers at Raina Blvd. 27.”
The Germans deliver Soviet children aged 4 to 12 years to the “People's Aid” yard in Riga at 5 Gertrudes Street. The children are kept in the yard under the guard of German soldiers. The Germans here organize a bargaining, selling children for agricultural work as farm laborers. Each such slave brought the slave trader from 9 to 15 German marks per month. For this money, the new owners tried to squeeze everything possible out of the kids.
Galina Kukharenok, born in 1933, says: “The Germans took me, my brother Zhorzhik and Verochka to Ogre, to the same owner. I worked in his field, harvested rye and hay, harrowed, got up early for work, it was still dark, and finished work in the evening, when it became dark. My sister tended two cows, three calves and 14 sheep with this owner. Verochka was 4 years old.”
The children's registration point in Riga on October 2, 1943, in relation No. 315, reported to the Social Department: “Young children of Russian refugees ... without rest, from early morning until late at night in rags, without shoes, with very little food, often for several days without food, the sick, without medical care, working for their owners in jobs that are inappropriate for their age. With their ruthlessness, their owners have gone so far that they beat the unfortunate people who are unable to work from hunger... they are robbed, taking away the last remnants of things... when they cannot work due to illness, they are not given any food, they sleep in the kitchens on dirty floors.”
The same document tells about a little girl Galina, who is in the Rembat parish, Mucenieki manor, with the owner Zarins, that due to unbearable conditions she wants to commit suicide.
The commandant of Salaspils, Krause, toured farms where children worked and checked the condition of the slaves. After such trips, arriving at the camp, he announced to everyone that the children were living well.
A thorough examination of the files of the Ostland Social Department revealed that at least 2,200 children aged 4 years and older were sold to Latvian farms as slaves. However, according to the data established by the commission, in fact for 1943 and 1944. The Germans distributed up to 5,000 children to local owners, of which about 4,000 were subsequently deported to Germany.
Children's camps in Latvia
The abduction of children is accompanied by robberies of orphanages and civilians. Here's what the employees showed orphanage in Maiori Shirante T.K., Purmalit M., Chishmakova F.K., Schneider E.M.: “On October 4, 1944, the Germans came on five buses and forcibly took 133 children from an orphanage aged 2 to Riga up to 5 years old, who were taken to be loaded onto the ship. The German fascists robbed the orphanage, took all the food, broke into all the cabinets.”
Witnesses Krastins M.M., Purviskis R.M., Kazakevich M.G., employees of the 1st Riga House, testified that shortly before the liberation of Riga, on the eve of the retreat, the Germans arrived at the Riga Orphanage. First, they plundered the property of the orphanage, then they took 160 babies, took them to the port and loaded them into the hold of a ship for coal in the cold. Some of the children were sick and they were also taken away.
Parents Yurevich A.A., Klementyeva V.P., Oberts G.S., Borovskaya A.M. informed the commission that the German fascists, retreating from Riga, broke into apartments at night and took children away from their parents. Witness Yurevich A.A. stated: “The Germans began to hastily drive away civilians from here and take away children. Everyone was herded to the port, loaded onto ships... I saw the following tragic pictures: parents escorted their children away under guard. Children screamed, clung to their mothers, and became hysterical. At the same time, they clung to their mothers so much that they tore their dresses. The Germans mercilessly tore the children from the hands of the women and loaded them onto the ship like cattle. The picture was terrible."
The investigation established that for approximately a year of the existence of the Dubulti children’s camp, from total number After 450 small children passed through it, at least 300 children were sold into slavery. Similar circumstances have been established in children's camps in Saulkrasti, Strenci, Igata and in the Riga orphanage at 4 Yumaras Street.
Extract from the protocol of interrogation of witness Agafya Afanasyevna Dudareva, born in 1910, worked as a cook in the Dubulti children's camp.
Question: Tell us how the children were kept in the camp in Dubulti and Bulduri?
Answer: A children’s camp was organized in Dubulti in June 1943, by which time I had just arrived there, and by the winter of 1943, around December, I was transferred to Bulduri. In Dubulti we were kept under lock and key. The children were kept separately. There were up to 20 of us female parents who served the children. In order to hide their atrocities of exterminating Russian children, the German fascists and their accomplices raised a whole howl, shouted that they were saving Russian children from the horrors of the Bolsheviks, called the occupied Soviet territories places liberated from the Bolsheviks, began to baptize children and march them to church. , there they were kept for a long time during worship, so that the exhausted children, who had survived the horrors of the Salaspils concentration camp, who had lost the blood that the German fascists forcibly took from them for their needs, fainted, and small children urinated on themselves in the church, but this was not kept some zealous German servants and they continued to torture the children. I emphasize Russian children because... there were no other children here. In both Dubulti and Bulduri churches, priests prayed for the victory of German weapons, pointing out that the Germans liberated the Soviet Union from the Bolsheviks. Priests from Riga, Dubulti and Bulduri came to the children in the camp, where they preached that the Germans had liberated them.
Ghetto
In the terrible overcrowding of the Riga ghetto, in which 35,000 people were subjected to sophisticated abuses of the human person, about 8,000 children under the age of 12 languished. All of them were destroyed by the German fascists and their local collaborators in a massacre between November 29 and December 9, 1941.
When columns of those doomed to death, escorted by policemen and SS men, were driven to slaughter in the Rumbula forest, the executioners were impatient. Right there on the streets of the city, the executioners amused themselves by using special sticks to catch mothers and children from the suicide column, drag them to the edge and immediately kill them at point-blank range.
The two-story building of the ghetto hospital at that time was overcrowded with sick children. The Germans threw sick children through the windows, aiming to hit the trucks parked near the hospital.
Krunkin B.E. talks about the atrocities of the fascists against children imprisoned in the ghetto: “... almost all Jewish children died in the ghetto during mass executions. But even before that, the executioners Cukurs and Dantzkop often came to the ghetto. Having caught the first child they came across, one of them threw the child into the air, and the other shot at him. In addition, Cukurs and Dantzkop grabbed the children by the legs, swung them and banged their heads against the wall. I saw it personally. There were many such cases. In addition, I remember this incident: the ghetto commandant Krause met a Jewish girl about 4 years old and affectionately asked her if she wanted some candy. When the child responded, not knowing what awaited him, Krause ordered her to open her mouth, when she did this, he pointed the gun and shot her in the mouth.”
Dr. Press told the commission: “At the gates of the ghetto, where the guards lived, the police threw a child into the air and, in the presence of the mother, amused themselves by picking up this child at bayonets.”
Witness Saliums K.K. testified to the commission: “Women with children were sent to be shot; there were a lot of children. Other mothers had two or three children. Many children walked in columns under heavy German police protection. Around the end of December 1941, in the morning at about 8 o'clock, the Germans drove three large parties of children to extermination school age. Each party consisted of at least 200 people. The children cried terribly, screamed and called their mothers, screaming for help. All these children were exterminated in Rumbula. The children were not shot, but killed with blows from machine guns and pistol grips to the head and dumped directly into a pit. When they buried the grave, not everyone was dead yet and the earth was shaking from the bodies of the buried children.”
In the photo: Civilians shot by the Germans in Liepaja in December 1941.
Witness Ritov Ya.D. testified to the commission: “I first encountered murdered children on November 29, 1941 under the following circumstances: I was called to the “Jewish Committee” and instructed to organize the removal of corpses that were lying on Ludzas and Liksnas streets in the ghetto. These were the corpses of the inhabitants of the ghetto in Rumbula who were driven away on November 29th. I managed to get 20 sleds with transport workers and volunteers of about 100 people. On the morning of November 29, 1941, at about 8 o’clock, I went out to Ludzas Street with a group of transport workers. Columns of people being driven to be shot continued to move through the streets. Individual columns consisted of approximately 1,500 people. At the front of the column were two German police officers, and on the sides and behind the column were approximately 50 local armed police. Using specially adapted sticks, the police caught women with children and old people by the legs or necks from the columns. At the same time, women and children fell, they were immediately shot at point-blank range from rifles at the edge of the column, putting the muzzle close to the head. The victims' heads were smashed into pieces. In my presence, the columns moved along Ludzas Street for about two hours and during all this time, about 350-400 people were killed in the mentioned way, who remained lying on the pavement. Among these corpses, a third were children. When the next columns passed, we began to clean up the corpses remaining on the pavement after November 29 and 30, 1941. Our team removed at least 100 corpses, but in total there were at least 700-800 corpses on the streets. About a third of them were children. We transported the corpses to the Jewish cemetery, first we laid them out, then we began to dump them randomly. I observed the following scene there: at the gates of the cemetery stood a group of children, about 15 people, aged from 2 to 12 years. There were two old women with them. This batch of victims was pulled out of the column. There were police officers standing next to this group. Children and old women stood at attention - they were forbidden to move. When I was leaving the cemetery with the sled, I turned around and saw how the police were driving this group of children and both old women into the cemetery. Immediately, a second later, shots rang out - this group was shot. That day, November 30th, I worked only until lunch, because... My nerves couldn't stand it anymore. The two-story building of the ghetto children's hospital was overcrowded with sick children. The SS threw sick children out of the window, aiming to hit the trucks parked near the hospital. The children’s brains were scattered in all directions.”
Dreylini
Truck after truck goes into the Dreilini forest. According to eyewitness K.K. Liepins, who worked as a farm laborer at the Sheiman estate throughout the entire period of the German occupation, the Germans set up a death conveyor at the edge of the forest: “Hearing shots in the forest, I went to the place of execution to see what the Germans were doing with their victims. I managed to get to a distance of 100 meters, and then I saw the following picture: a car was approaching, a German military man climbed in, threw those sitting there to the ground, and another German immediately stunned the victim with a stick, apparently an iron one, to the head. The stunned man was dragged further, undressed, then dragged to a pile of dead bodies, where he was shot in the back of the head. After this, the naked person was thrown onto a pile of dead bodies, which were then burned. A special conveyor belt of death was set up with German pedantry. The children were thrown to the ground, grabbed by the legs and arms, and immediately shot.”
Witness E.V. Denisevich says: “I know that during the period of the German occupation of Riga, they committed terrible crimes and shot innocent civilian Soviet citizens, including women and children. Personally, I was an eyewitness to the following Nazi atrocities: Around August or September 1944, I went to the Sheimansky forest to pick mushrooms. When I was walking through the forest, from behind the trees I saw several cars covered in black drive into the forest. These cars stopped on a mountain in the forest and armed German soldiers with dogs first got out of them, and then they began to unload women and children from the cars and immediately shoot them. Moreover, two cars were with women and children, and one car was with boys. Women and children, whom the Germans shot, screamed for salvation and cried. From these screams I realized that the women and children brought were Russian, since they screamed in Russian. I was very frightened by this picture and started running.”
Based on the testimony of eyewitnesses Liepins, Karklints, Silins, Unfericht, Walter, Denisevich and others, it was established that in August 1944, at least 2,000 children were brought to the Dreylinsky forest by the Germans in 67 cars and shot in the forest.
Sea air, a sandy beach with the famous white sand, sun and pine forest on an area of 12 hectares, a friendly team and an extensive excursion program - all this is our camp, where there are no boundaries! Children from Russia and Europe live and relax together in the camp. Together they prepare festive events, dance at discos, and meet new friends. This is a camp of friendship and adventure, a wonderful holiday and new experiences!
Age: from 7 to 17 years.
Arrivals: 01.06, 23.06, 15.07, 06.08.
Location: in the dune zone, on the shore of the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea, 55 km from the capital of Latvia - the city of Riga, 30 km from the resort town of Jurmala.
Camp area:
Camp area: A unique healing effect is created not only by the sea air, but also by a beautiful pine forest with relict trees of coniferous and deciduous varieties. The territory of the complex preserves as much as possible the feeling of being in nature - it is a large, well-kept park of 12 hectares. An indoor pool (25x9m) with a water temperature of + 28°C makes it possible to swim regardless of the sea water temperature.
Accommodation: In 3- and 2-story buildings, 3-5 people each, in rooms with private amenities. All buildings have double-glazed windows, the rooms have new furniture. Cleaning daily.
Meals: Balanced portioned meals 5 times a day (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, second dinner). The diet includes fresh vegetables and fruits, meat and fish dishes, delicious pastries and dairy products. The camp has a cafe-buffet where children can buy juices, sweets and ice cream.
Beach: 3 minutes walk from the camp through a dune with a pine forest. The sea is not deep, the swimming area is fenced with buoys. A doctor and instructors are always present on the beach when children are swimming.
Medical care: There is a medical center with an isolation ward, a doctor and nurses working around the clock.
Security: The territory of the recreation complex is fenced and guarded around the clock.
Entertainment: An educational and exciting camp program will help participants discover new talents, receive support and recognition, learn to interact, engage in activities of interest, and experience personal and collective success.
The program includes:
- Evening “Welcome to Latvia”
- Discos
- Educational and interactive competitions and quizzes
- Marine relay races
- Schools of applied arts, floristry and design, weaving baubles
- Modern choreography, theatrical performances
- Sports quest games, relay races, orienteering, rope course
- Debate club, children's parliament, press club
- Music recording studio, vocals, video clip recording shift
- Circle of getting to know Latvia - history, culture, language in a playful way
- Swimming, fitness, table tennis, checkers and chess
And friends, sea, sun and “starry” Star Team evenings will make the program unforgettable! Unleash your talents - become a creative and bright personality!
Opportunities for sports groups:
- Swimming: indoor pool (25x9 m 3 lanes, depth 1.90).
- Football: football field (20x40 m, grass surface).
- Gymnastics, dancing: assembly hall - 280 m, covering - laminate, ceiling height - 7.20 m (on request); hall - 112 m, covering - laminate, ceiling height - 2.95 m, hall - 120 m, covering - laminate, ceiling height - 6.25 m.
- Volleyball, basketball, outdoor games: volleyball court; basketball court; games room - 200 m, ceiling height - 3.00 m (tennis tables, novus).
| Shifts | Arrival dates | Cost of the trip |
|---|---|---|
| 1st shift | 01.06 - 23.06 | 850 euros |
| 2nd shift | 23.06 - 15.07 | 850 euros |
| 3rd shift | 15.07 - 06.08 | 850 euros |
| 4th shift | 06.08 - 28.08 | 850 euros |
Included in the price:
- accommodation in rooms for 3-4 people;
- nutrition;
- obtaining travel insurance for the camp;
- the program and all master classes and events included in it;
- provision of sports equipment and stationery;
- visiting the pool according to the schedule;
- 24-hour medical care and security;
- teaching staff;
- commemorative T-shirt and cap;
- 2 excursions: sightseeing tours of Riga and Jurmala + acquaintance with the medieval castle of Jaunpils.
Additional charges:
- railway Moscow - Riga - Moscow - 170 €;
- visa - 55 €;
- accommodation of accompanying persons (at the request of parents);
- additional excursions.
Excursion program:
Two excursions are included in the price:
- Sightseeing tour of Riga - Legends of the Old Town, of Jurmala - the resort city - the venue of the "New Wave" competition.
- The ancient castle of the knights of the Livonian Order "Jaunpils" - an interactive excursion, getting acquainted with the history, fun, life and life of the knights.
At extra charge:
- Fun sightseeing tours to bakeries;
- Cinema town "Cinevilla";
- Candle factories, where children can make candles with their own hands;
- A trip to the beautiful port city of Ventspils.
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