Obj. ID: 52456
Jewish Architecture Holocaust Memorial Plaque on the Zeilen (Säulen) Synagogue in Riga, Latvia, 1990s
To the main object: Zeilen (Säulen) Synagogue at 63 Stabu St. in Riga, Latvia
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews burnt alive in the Zeilen Shul
Description:
A granite plaque with Latvian and Hebrew inscriptions is affixed to the street facade of the former Zeilen Shul, on the left side of the main entrance.
Inscription:
Latvian
Synagogas nams
uzcelts 1906. gadā.
1941.g. 4.jūlijā nacisti
tajā sadedzināja
dzīvus simtiem ebreju.
Translation: The synagogue building was built in 1906. On July 4, 1941, the Nazis burned hundreds of Jews alive there.
Hebrew
בית כנסת זה
"זיילן שול" הוקם
בשנת תרסו. ט' תמוז
תש"א נשרפו בו על
קידוש השם ע"י הנאצים
ימ"ש מאות יהודים. הי"ד
Translation: The synagogue “Zeilen Shul” was established in 1906. On the 9 of Tammuz 1941 hundreds of Jews, may God avenge their blood, were burnt within for sanctification of God’s name by the Nazis, may their names be obliterated.
Commissioned by
The Jewish community of Riga (?)
2 image(s)
sub-set tree:
In the first days of July 1941, the Zeilen Shul on 63 Stabu St. was used as a collection point for Jews arrested in the nearby houses. The synagogue was put on fire on July 4, 1941, together with the Jews.
The plaque was probably installed in the 1990s, after the reestablishment of Latvian independence.
"Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia," a website by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, http://memorialplaces.lu.lv/memorial-places/riga-and-riga-district/riga-stabu-street-63/.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 305.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), p. 330.