Conentration camp survivor remembers salspils, by planting a xmas tree each year.

But in 1942 the Nazis accused Zigi of being a nationalist and threw him into the Salaspils concentration camp on the outskirts of Latvian capital Riga.
The pensioner - who is now partially blind and deaf - squeezes his eyes shut as he remembers the horror of 68 years ago.
He adds: "I was there for over a year and we were worked hard.
"We were tasked with building workers' barracks. I was in a youth cell for prisoners under 21.
"We weren't allowed to celebrate Christmas which was very hard.
"We would quietly sing some carols but not so loud that the guards could hear us.
"I loved Silent Night. We would have been punished if we'd been caught. The conditions were horrendous, if you were ill you had NO chance of survival.
"Once a week we were taken out of the camp and were so hungry that some people would eat grass.


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