Terror descended upon the Riga Ghetto as the SS-Einsatzgruppen, a feared Nazi death squad, swooped in to round up roughly 25,000 Jews. The unsuspecting victims were forcibly marched to the Rumbula Forest, where they were brutally executed in a horrific display of brutality. The massacre, which took place on November 30, 1941, was a devastating blow to the Jewish community, and it marked one of the darkest chapters of the Holocaust.