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Modern Jewish Art
  Plaques dedicated to the memory of all victims in Šķēde, Liepāja, Latvia, 2006

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2023

Official name

No official name

Who is commemorated?

Jews, Soviet POWs, and Latvian civilians killed in the Šķēde dunes, including rescuers of Jews

Description

At the entrance to the Righteous Among the Nations Alley, on its northern side, three black granite plaques on a grey granite base inform - in Latvian, Russian, and English - about the number of Jews, Soviet POWs, and Latvian civilians killed in the Šķēde dunes. 

Inscriptions

Latvian:

Nacistu okupācijas upuru
piemiņas vieta

Šeit, Šķēdes kāpās, no 1941. līdz 1945. gadam
tika nogalināti
3640 ebreji, ieskaitot 1048 bērnos
ap 2000 padomju karagūstekņu,
ap 1000 latviešu civiliedzīvotāju,
ieskaitot cilvēkus, kuri palidzēja ebrejiem
un karagūstekņiem un pretojās okupantiem.

Mēs godinām musu piederīgo un visu pārējo
vardarbīgi nonāvēto upuru piemiņu

Liepājas ebreju
Eduarda Andersa un Vladimira Bāna ziedoiums
2006

Russian:

Место памяти жертв
нацистской оккупации

Здесь в Шкедских дюнах,
c 1941 по 1945 годы были убиты
3640 евреев, в том числе 1048 детей,
Около 2000 советских военнопленных и
1000 латвийских гражданских лиц,
включая людей, которые помогали
евреям и военнопленным
и оказывали сопротивление оккупантам.

Мы чтим память наших родных и
всех погибших от рук нацистов

Пожертвование лиепайских евреев
Эдварда Андерса и Владимира Бана
2006

English:

Memorial Site for Victims
of Nazi Occupation

Here in the Šķēde dunes
were murdered from 1941 to 1945

3640 Jews, including 1048 children,
~2000 Soviet prisoners of war,
~1000 Latvian civilians,
including people who helped Jews and
prisoners, and resisted the occupiers.

We honor the memory of our relatives
and all other victims who lie here,
united in death

Donated by Liepāja Jews
Edward Anders and Vladimirs Bāns
2006

Commissioned by

Edward Anders and Vladimirs Bāns

Summary and Remarks
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Plaques dedicated to the memory of all victims in Šķēde | Unknown
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2006
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Latvia | Kurzeme | Liepāja
| Šķēde
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History/Provenance

The plaque was installed in 2006.

Main Surveys & Excavations
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/kurzeme/liepaja-municipality-the-skede-dunes/.

Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 216.

Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), p. 256.
Type
Documenter
Vladimir Levin, Milda Jakulytė | 2023
Author of description
Vladimir Levin | 2023
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