Img. ID: 455219

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Dagda Jews murdered in this place.

Description:

The monument is situated in the northeastern part of the cemetery, far from other graves. It stands on a terrain that looks like a mass grave, surrounded by a metal fence with concrete posts.

The monument is a high black marble obelisk in secondary use. It was produced in the beginning of the 20th century by Gurevitz Brothers in Riga. Since there are no similar obelisks or other tombstones of the same scale in the Dagda cemetery, the monument was probably brought from Riga. Two original inscriptions on the front and back sides of the obelisk, probably in Hebrew and in German or Russian, were removed, and new ones, in Russian and Yiddish, were made on the two remaining facets.

The Yiddish inscription is written according to the Soviet orthography of Yiddish (without final letters), and it seems that the person who made it did not know Yiddish: all letters ayin are written as tzadi.

Inscription

Russian

Здесь
1 августа 1941 г. Зверски убиты
немецко-фашистскими захватчиками
и их пособниками
120 мирных жителей м. Дагды
в том числе женщины и дети

Translation: Here, on August 1, 1941, 120 peaceful residents of the town of Dagda, including women and children, were brutally killed by German fascist occupiers and their helpers.

Yiddish

דא זיינענ
מערדעריש ערמארדעטע
120 פרידליכע דאגנער
איינווינער פרויענ אונ קינדער
דורכ די דייטשישע
פאשיסטישע
פארכאפטרס
מיט זייערע מיטהעלפער

דאגדע
1-טן אווגיסט
1941

Translation: Here were brutally murdered 120 peaceful Dagde residents, women and children, by German fascist occupiers with their helpers. Dagde, August 1, 1941.

Commissioned by

Jews originating from Dagda