Deported

Sometime around Christmas, 1941, Hansgeorg and his family were deported - sent away - to a ghetto in the capital of Latvia, Riga. In November, the previous inhabitants, 30,000 Latvian  Jews, had been murdered by the Nazis to make room for the German Jews. Hansgeorg was 15 years old when he was sent to Riga. Conditions in the Riga ghetto were horrible! There was precious little food and water, and the Germans shut down most sanitary facilities. Eventually, the ghetto was emptied of its inhabitants. Most of the Jews were horribly murdered by the Germans, while others were sent to labor camps where they died. Nothing is known about Hansgeorg after he was deported to the Riga ghetto, since he was never heard from again.