Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan da farko ya fitar da yarjejeniyar Latvia a karkashin matsin lamba <unk>Stalin da kansa ya yi barazanar ministan harkokin wajen Latvia, a Moscow, yayin tattaunawa <unk>don sanya sojojin Soviet a kan ƙasar Latvia, Tarayyar Soviet ta mamaye Latvia a ranar 16 ga Yuni, 1940. An fara kama shugabannin jama'a da na siyasa na Yahudawa a watan Agustan 1940. Na farko da za a kama shi ne shugabannin Zionist Favid Varhaftig da Mahanud Alperin. An kori shugabannin Betar. A cikin 1941, Soviets sun kama Mordechai Nurock, M. Dubin da sauran shugabannin al'ummar Yahudawa, Zionists, masu ra'ayin mazan jiya, da 'yan gurguzu na dama. S. Shustin ne ya amince da umarnin kama su. Lokacin da Soviets suka aiwatar da zagaye na farko na ƙauracewar Baltic
, a daren 13 ga Yuni zuwa 14, 1941, an kori dubban Yahudawa na Latvia tare da Latvians. Daga cikin dukkan kabilun da aka kora, Yahudawa sun sha wahala fiye da kowane, kuma an kora su zuwa yanayi mai tsanani. An adana bayanan fitar da Yahudawa 'yan kasar Latvia 1,212 (12.5% na waɗanda aka kora zuwa nesa da USSR) amma ainihin adadin yahudawan da aka kora ya fi girma, a cikin tsari na 5,000 zuwa 6,000 a lokacin mamayar Soviet ta farko.