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Feb 01, 1900 Jelgava, Latvia Died on 14 May 1987 (aged 87)
Rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust
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About Jnis Lipke
- Janis Lipke (also Žanis and Jan Lipke; 1 February 1900, Jelgava – 14 May 1987, Riga) was a Latvian rescuer of Jews in Riga in World War II from the Holocaust in Latvia.
- Lipke, a dock worker in the port of Riga, was determined to help save Latvian Jews from capture by the Nazis after witnessing actions against them in the streets.
- He retrained in order to become a contractor for the Luftwaffe, and then used his position to smuggle Jewish workers out of the Riga ghetto and camps in and around Riga, whom he concealed with the aid of his wife Johana until the arrival of the Red Army in October 1944.
- The Lipkes and their various helpers saved forty people in this way, one fifth of the approximately 200 Jews who survived the war in Latvia. When he died in 1987, the Jews of Riga arranged his funeral.
