Img. ID: 409714

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Victims of the Ludza Ghetto, reinterred in the cemetery after WWII.

Description:

This is a mass grave of Jewish victims from the Ludza Ghetto reinterred here after WWII.

Three stelas are situated on the grave.

The oldest one, in the middle, was made of stone in the 1950s (see here)

This second stele stands on the on the right of the oldest one. It is made of red granite and bears a five-pointed star and Latvian and Russian inscriptions mentioning “peaceful inhabitants.” It is identical to the memorial stele at the killing site near Zilupe erected in 1961 (see here) and very similar to the monument in the Garbari Forest near Ludza, erected in 1961 (see here).

The third stele, on the left, was erected in the 1990s (see here).

Latvian

Šeit 1941 g.
vacu fašisti masveidīgi
iznīcināja Ludzas
mierīgos iedzīvotājus

Translation: Here, in 1941, German Fascists massively destroyed the peaceful inhabitants of Ludza

Russian

Здесь в 1941 г.
происходило массовое
уничтожение мирных жителей
гор. Лудзы
немецкими фашистами

Translation: Here, in 1941, took place the mass destruction of the peaceful inhabitants of the city of Ludza by the German Fascists.

Commissioned by

Authorities of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (to be confirmed)