During the Second World War, the Salaspils Police Prison and Salaspils Work Rearing Camp was located in Salaspils.
SS-Sturmbannführer Rudolf Lange, first assigned to Einsatzgruppe A and from December 1941 commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and the SD, planned in October 1941 to set up a police detention center and camp for Jews in Salaspils. The place was easily accessible by the railway connection Riga - Daugavpils; the detainees were to be used for peat cutting. All "remaining Jews in Riga and Latvia" should be concentrated here, with men and women separated to prevent "further multiplication". Latvian "contracted laborers" and "working boycats" should also be "transformed" in the camp.
First transports with German Jews, which had been diverted to Riga in October 1941, could not yet be accepted in Salaspils and were provisionally housed in the concentration camp Jungfernhof. The camp was expanded until the spring of 1942 by Soviet prisoners of war and deported Czech and some German Jews of the concentration camp Jungfernhof. The plans changed several times. Instead of the Jews, "protective inmates" and deportees from "gangs" were accommodated.
To commemorate those who perished in the camp, a memorial was erected in 1967; a showroom, several sculptures, and a marble block in which a metronome recalls the heartbeat of the dead and engraved lines mark the days of suffering.
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