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  Holocaust memorial at the entrance to Leščinski Garden in Rēzekne, Latvia, 2006

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 4.2022

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

 120 Jews of Rēzekne shot on this site on July 15, 1941

Description:

The monument is placed in the intersection of Dzirnava and Krasta Streets. It is a black granite stele on a low pedestal. Four almost identical inscriptions in Latvian, Yiddish, Russian, and English are preceded by the Star of David. In its lower right, there is another Star of David and the name of the monument’s sponsor, the Council of Jewish Communities in Latvia in Latvian, English, and Russian.

Inscriptions

Latvian

Šajā vietā
1941. gada 15. Jūlijā
vietējie nacisti nošāva
120 rēzeknes ebrejus

Translation: In this place, on July 15, 1941, local Nazis shot 120 Jews of Rēzekne

Yiddish

דעם 15 יולי 1941
האבן די היגע נאציסטן דערשאסן
אף דעם ארט 120 רעז'יצער אידן
ה.י.ד.

Translation: On July 15, 1941, local Nazis shot on this site 120 Jews of Rezhitsa. May God avenge their blood.

Russian

На этом месте
15 июля 1941 года
местные нацисты расстреляли
120 резекненских евреев

Translation: In this place, on July 15, 1941, local Nazis shot 120 Jews of Rēzekne

English

120 Rezekne’s Jews
were shot down
on this place by the local Nazis
on July 15, 1941

Donor's inscription in Latvian, English. and Russian:

Latvijas ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome

Latvian Council of Jewish Communities

Совет еврейских общин Латвии

 

Commissioned by

The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia

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Holocaust memorial at the entrance to Leščinski Garden in Rēzekne | Unknown
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2006
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Latvia | Latgale | Rēzekne
| corner of Dzirnava and Krasta St.
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History/Provenance

The troops of Nazi Germany entered Rēzekne on July 3, 1941. The first murders of Jews took place already on the following day. On July 15, 1941, for propaganda purposes, a group of Jews was ordered to unearth Latvians killed by the retreating Soviets. After that, the killing of Jews began. Some Jews were trying to hide in the garden of Leščinski, but they were followed and killed.

A monument near the Leščinski Garden was erected in 2006 by the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia.

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Sources

"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-lescinskis-garden/.

Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 278.

Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), pp. 306-307.

Rochko, Josif, Jewish Latgale: Guidebook (Daugavpils, by the author, 2018), pp. 33-34.
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Documenter
Vladimir Levin, Milda Jakulytė | 2022
Author of description
Vladimir Levin | 2023
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