Theodorus Cramer News Today

Grave contains victims of 1941 massacre in Liepāja that was filmed by a German soldier; Jewish museum director says site should be marked as a memorial

A mass grave left behind by the Nazis after a bloody massacre of Latvia's Jews was unearthed this week, following decades of efforts to locate it.

A team led by Harry Jol and Martin Goettl from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Philip Reeder from Duquesne University, went to Liepāja to search for the grave.

A mass grave of Jews has been identified in Latvia following decades of searching. And the body of a Jewish resistance fighter buried in a mass grave has been found in the Netherlands.

Bernard Luza was shot by firing squad in 1943 after he and hundreds of other Jews and their relatives were arrested following a raid on a factory in Amsterdam.