June 17: And occupy it until the Nazi invasion/occupation of Latvia 13 months later in July 1941.
Immediately after the establishment of the Nazi authority, mass killings of the Jewish and Gypsy populations commenced, with a major killing taking place in Rumbula.
During the Nazi occupation, designated killing campaigns murdered 90,000 Latvians, of whom 70,000 were Jews.
[Contemporary note: By the early 2000s, around 9,000 Jews remained in Latvia (similar to the mid–nineteenth century figure) mostly in Riga, where an Ohr Avner Chabad school was in operation.]