Obj. ID: 50273
Memorials Monument to 13 Holocaust victims in the Jewish cemetery in Liepāja, Latvia, 1970s(?)
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Liepāja, Latvia
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
13 Jewish victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The monument is situated in the western part of the Jewish cemetery, to the north of the main pathway.
It is a low grey granite stele with a five-pointed star. Identical Latvian and Russian inscriptions are written in two columns.
Inscriptions
Latvian
1941–1945
mūžīgā slava
13 ebreju tautības
pilsoņiem vācu fašistu
terora upuriem
[List of 13 names]
Translation: 1941–1945. Eternal glory to the 13 citizens of Jewish nationality, victims of German fascist terror.
Russian
1941–1945
Вечная слава
13 гражданам
еврейской
национальности
жертвам немецко-
фашиского терора [фашистского террора]
[List of 13 names]
Translation: 1941–1945. Eternal glory to the 13 citizens of Jewish nationality, victims of German fascist terror.
Commissioned by
Jews of Liepāja
sub-set tree: 
The history of the monument is unknown. The names of Jewish victims written on this monument are missing from the lists of Holocaust victims of Latvia and of Liepāja.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 213.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), p. 253.