Murder Story of Ludza Jews at the Brick Factory in Ludza

... Apart from the mass shootings, the Germans carried out executions of separate groups of the civil population, including families. Thus, according to the witness Olga Savelyevna Grishkan, on July 15, 1941, twenty-five Jews – refugees from other parts of Latvia – were shot in Ludza, next to the brick factory. Among them was O. S. Kheifets, the husband of Grishkan, who had lived in town of Skaistelne [Skaistkalne] before the war ....