the grave was opened and chlorine cast over the bodies. Philippe Labrune saw a photograph in the Jewish Museum in Riga of 4 women and a girl and began an investigation to out who the girl was. He discovered that she was Sorella Epstein and a French documentary was made on the investigation. It was broadcast in France in 2015. Photographs of the December shootings The Liepāja ghetto In June 1942, when the Liepāja ghetto was established, there were only about 814 surviving Jews. The ghetto itself consisted of only 11 houses on four streets. Until the ghetto was closed in October 1943, the inhabitants were used as a pool of forced labor for the occupying authorities. During that time 102 people died and 54 were executed. The ghetto guards were Latvians wearing black uniforms. Conditions were harsh and food was short. On October 8, 1943, Yom Kippur, the survivors of the Liepāja ghetto were loaded into cattle cars and shipped to Riga and the ghetto was closed. Only three Jews, who were barely alive, were left behind, two shoemakers and one goldsmith. Justice 351 members of the Arajs Kommando were prosecuted by the Soviets, with 30 of them being executed. Viktors Arājs evaded justice for many years, but in 1979 he was convicted in a West German court and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1988. Fritz Dietrich was tried and convicted by the Americans not for his crimes in Latvia, but for ordering the executions of seven American airmen who had surrendered in Germany. He was sentenced to death and executed at Landsberg Prison in 1948. Franz Stahlecker was fatally wounded in action by Russian partisans on 22 March 1942. He died the next day. Wolfgang Kügler in a post war crimes trial in West Germany and sentenced to 8 months in prison and a fine. In 1969, Hans Baumgartner, a member of Einsatzkommando 2 who participated in the shootings, was arrested in East Germany. In March 1971, he was found guilty of participating in the deportations of at least 3000 people and the shootings of nearly 6330 Jews, other civilians, and POWs, in Latvia, including in Liepāja, and sentenced to death. Baumgartner, 60, was executed by shooting at Leipzig Prison on 16 September 1971. In 1971, a court in West Germany (Hannover Landgericht) convicted a number of the SD and Ordnungspolizei participants in the