Original film canisters located in Museum offsite storage. See Film ID 201, Stories 283 and 284 for duplicate footage of bodies/beating; See Story 81, Film ID 140 and Story 112, Film ID 145, and Story 285, Film ID 201 for duplicate footage of synagogue burning. The numbers found in the"Source Archive " field of the USHMM database are the original German newsreel numbers and production dates, as found in Bucher, Peter."Wochenschauen und Dokumentarfilme 1895-1950 im Bundesarchiv-Filmarchi" Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, 1984.
According to the narrator, an atrocity committed by the retreating Soviets against Latvian nationalists in the Riga area. View of a building, then people carrying corpses on stretchers and laying them out in a row on the grass. Civilians looking at the bodies and weeping; many women. A woman in a flowered dress lays a body in a coffin. Close-up of a woman weeping. Bodies of children. Latvian civilians beating Jews they hold responsible for the atrocity. They drag a man across the street. Many German soldiers in the street watching the Jews being beaten. A burning synagogue in Riga. The narrator suggests that the Soviets had spared the synagogue while destroying the rest of the town, but the citizens destroyed it as revenge for the atrocity committed by the Soviets/Jews.
Atrocity in Riga; Riga synagogue burns