Memorial Name
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
Krāslava Jews
Description:
The monument stands on the site of a mass grave in the Augustovka ravine, in the middle of a forest. A paved path leads to the site, where there are two additional paved paths with low stone walls of different heights.
The monument is a concrete stele of triangular footprint standing on a concrete triangular base. Its widest facet features the Star of David, a Yiddish inscription that mentions Jews, and Latvian and Russian inscriptions that do not mention Jews.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
אייביקער אנדיינקונג
די געשאסענע יידן
Translation: Eternal memory to shot Jews.
Latvian:
Mūžīga piemiņa
fašisma upuriem
Russian:
Вечная память
жертвам фашизма
Translation: Eternal memory to victims of fascism.
1941
Commissioned by
Jewish survivors from Krāslava.