DEATH: 1941. Parents were captured in Gostini by the Germans and killed in a foreign outside of Plavinas. Batsheva Meilach, their grandmother, traveled from Riga to Gostini and took the boys back to Riga. Batsheva and the 2 boys were probably shot in the massacre in Rumbula forest near Riga in 1941. [Source: Eugene Feigelson, March 25, 1992 document on trip to Latvia.] Plavinas, Killed By Nazis, Latvia [1]