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'''Pembantaian Liepāja''' adalah serangkaian eksekusi massal, kebanyakan publik atau semipublik, di dan dekat kota Liepāja ({{lang-de|Libau}}), di pantai barat [[Latvia]] tahun 1941 setelah [[Front Timur (Perang Dunia II)|pendudukan Nazi di Latvia]]. ThePara mainpelaku perpetratorsutama werekejahatan detachmentsini ofadalah thedetasemen [[Einsatzgruppen]], the [[Sicherheitsdienst]] oratau SD, the [[Ordnungspolizei]], oratau ORPO, anddan [[LatvianKepolisian AuxiliaryBantu PoliceLatvia|Latviankepolisian auxiliarybantu policeLatvia anddan militiapasukan forcesmilisi]]. [[Wehrmacht]] and dan[[Kriegsmarine|GermanAngkatan navalLaut forcesJerman]] participatedturut inserta thedalam shootingspenembakan.{{sfn|Ezergailis|1996|pp=292-3}} InSelain additionorang to JewsYahudi, theNazi Nazisdan andkolaborator theirLatvia Latvianmereka collaboratorsjuga alsomembunuh killedorang GypsiesGipsi, communistskomunis, thedan mentallysakit illmental{{sfn|Ezergailis|1996|pp=292-3}} and so-called "hostages".<ref name="Ezer_286">Ezergailis 1996, pp. 286-7.</ref> InBerbeda contrastdengan tokebanyakan most otherpembunuhan Holocaust murderslainnya indi Latvia, thepembantaian killings atdi Liepāja weredilakukan donedi in opentempat placesterbuka.<ref>Ezergailis 1996, p. 33 n.81.</ref> About 5,000 of the 5,700 Jews trapped in Liepāja were shot, most of them in 1941.<ref name="Ezer_286"/> ThePembantaian killingsterjadi occurreddi atberbagai atempat varietydi ofdalam placesdan withindi andluar outsidekota, oftermasuk the city, includingTaman Rainis Park indi the citypusat centerkota, anddan areasdaerah-daerah neardekat the harborpelabuhan, theStadion Olympic StadiumOlimpiade, and thedan lighthousemercusuar. The largest [[massacre]], of 2,731 Jews and 23 communists, occurred in the dunes surrounding the town of [[Šķēde]], north of the city center. This massacre, which was perpetrated on a disused [[Latvian Army]] training ground, was conducted by Nazi and partisan forces from December 15 to 17, 1941.<ref name="Ezer_286"/> More is known about the killing of the Jews of Liepāja than in any other city in Latvia except for Riga.<ref name=Ezer_305n1>Ezergailis 1996, p. 305 n.1.</ref>
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