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Vintage Latvia Salaspils Memorial Ensemble World War 2 Work Camp Pin Badge
Vintage Latvia Salaspils Memorial Ensemble World War 2 Work Camp Pin Badge
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- A bronze coloured metal badge with a 1.8cm high face and a long stick pin style fastener to the rear.
The face features the statue of the Salaspils Memorial Ensemble.
- The Salaspils Memorial Ensemble was erected where an extended police prison and labour correctional camp (Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis und Arbeitserziehungslager) of National Socialistic Germany was located from 1941 to 1945. It was built by deported Jews from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The camp imprisoned Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian civilians and military personal, as well as transit prisoners, including small children from Latgale, Belarus and Russia. Over the various periods that the Salaspils camp was in operation, more than 20,000 individuals found themselves there. Because of heavy labour, illness, starvation and inhumane treatment and punishments, at least 2,000 to 3,000 people died in the camp.
