OGRE, city (since 1928), district centre (Republic of Latvia). In the late 19th – early 20th centuries – in the Riga district of the Livonian province. In 1918–1940 – part of the Republic of Latvia, in 1940–1991 – Latvian SSR.

In 1930, there were 38 Jews (3%) living in Ogre, and in 1935, there were 50 Jews (2.9%).

In the 1910s, the head of the Jewish family living in Ogre was a grain merchant. In the 1930s, there was a synagogue in Ogre.

In the summer of 1941, after the occupation by units of the Wehrmacht, the Jews of Ogre were shot in the forest near the railway station. The Rifle Division under the command of Major General Mikhail Emmanuilovich Moskalik (1898–1956) took part in the liberation of Ogre from the Nazi in October 1944.

In the early 1990s, a monument to the shot Jews was erected in Ogre.