Obj. ID: 50164
Memorials Holocaust Memorial in the Vipinga Forest near Rēzekne, Latvia, 1974, 2000
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Victims of the Nazies, including Jews, murdered on this site
Description:
The monument is situated near the Vipinga Lake. It consists of a large concrete base and two upper concrete blocks with a trimmed corner. The larger block faces the lake. A granite plaque affixed to it contains a Latvian inscription, “Eternal memory for the victims of fascism.” This plaque was probably made in 2000 and replaced the original one, which had also a Russian inscription. The smaller block faces the forest, and a granite plaque affixed to it is inscribed with the date of the murder, March 6, 1943.
Inscriptions
On the front side, in Latvian
Mūžīga piemiņa
fašisma upuriem
Translation: Eternal memory for the victims of fascism
On the back side:
1943.6.III
Translation: March 6, 1943
Commissioned by
1974 - Authorities of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
2000 - The Jewish Community of Rēzekne (?)
8 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Larger block: 125 x 115 x 100 cm
Smaller block: 100 x 90 x 100 cm
In the spring of 1943 (March 6, 1943, according to the inscription on the monument), the last Jewish "specialists" in Rēzekne, Jews who went in hiding but were found, as well as inhabitants of Stoļerova, Kaunata, and Riebiņi, who fought against the occupation regime, were murdered in the Vipinga Forest.
A memorial plaque was erected in 1974 and was restored in 2000.
Barkahan, Menahem, Rita Bogdanova, Meier Meler, Latvia: Synagogues, Jewish Cemeteries, Burial Places of the Holocaust Victims. Map of Memorable Places of Jewish History (Riga, 2005).
"Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia," a website by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, http://memorialplaces.lu.lv/memorial-places/latgale/rezekne-the-vipinga-forest/.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 282.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), p. 309.