Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp
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How to send mail, money, and visit Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp
Step-by-step guidance using the Latvia system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
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Operational period: 1943–1944.
Background
Kaiserwald (Ķeizarmežs) was a Nazi concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks, then part of Reichskommissariat Ostland, in modern-day Latvia. Kaiserwald was built in March 1943, during the period that the German army occupied Latvia. The first inmates of the camp were several hundred convicts from Germany. Following the liquidation of the Riga, LiepÄja and Daugavpils (Dvinsk) ghettos in June 1943, the remainder of the Jews of Latvia, along with most of the survivors of the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, were deported to Kaiserwald. In early 1944, a number of smaller camps around Riga were brought under the jurisdiction of the Kaiserwald camp.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1943
Closed 1944
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Nazi GermanyPopulation held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1943
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Sia Hertsberg1927
- Amalie Leser1896
- Markus Mindus1895
- Arnold Windmüller1881–1943
- Elja Haifetz1912 · musician
- Ernst Rosenstern1930–1978
- Albert Steeg1877
- Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim1925–2023 · poet
Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim (Yiddish: ר××§× ××ס×××; 20 February 1925 â 22 March 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator.
- Leo Singer1897
Showing 9 of 11. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
32%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q697912)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/riga-kaiserwald-concentration-camp
"Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/riga-kaiserwald-concentration-camp.
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