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{{Short description|Village in Preiļi Municipality, Latvia}}
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'''Riebiņi''' ({{langx|lv|Riebiņi}}, {{langx|ltg|Ribiniški}}, {{langx|pl|Rybiniszki}}, {{langx|yi|Ribinishok}}) is a [[village]] in [[Riebiņi Parish]], [[Preiļi Municipality]] in the [[Latgale]] region of [[Latvia]].
==History==
The village was a [[shtetl]], and most of the inhabitants were [[Jewish]]. According to the census of 1897, there were 533 Jews living in the village (91% of the total population).  In the beginning of the 20th century, many of the Jews left for Israel or the United States, and in 1935, Jews constituted 68% of the total population.
At the end of August 1941, Latvian civil defense police (reportedly - former members of the ''[[Aizsargi]]''){{verify quote|date=July 2020}} arrested Jews and locked them into the synagogues. Then they were moved to Ribiniški Forest (4&nbsp;km. northwest of the shtetl) and murdered there in a mass execution. There were some local inhabitants from Solutions district{{verify quote|date=July 2020}} who took part in the massacre and several Germans who watched it.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=jewishgen.org|url=http://www.jewishgen.org/latvia/Riebini.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428215841/http://www.jewishgen.org/latvia/Riebini.htm|archive-date=2016-04-28|access-date=|website=}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Villages in Latvia]]
[[Category:Historic Jewish communities in Latvia]]
[[Category:Jewish Latvian history]]
[[Category:Holocaust locations in Latvia]]
[[Category:Populated places in Preiļi Municipality]]
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