Obj. ID: 50160
Memorials Holocaust Monument in the Jewish cemetery in Krāslava, Latvia, 1970s(?)
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Krāslava, Latvia
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Krāslava Jews killed by the Nazis
Description:
The monument is situated in front of the gate of the Jewish cemetery. It is a modest concrete stele with a Russian epitaph and a Star of David.
Inscription
Russian
Вечная память
жертвам фашизма
погибшим в 1941 г.
Поташ Ошер, Соре-Гена
Нахман, Эма
Борис с семьей
Ася и дети
Мост Рафаил и Циля
Нахман, Мина, Мейше
Феша, Мотл
Заремео Хаим
Этел и дети от родных
Translation: Eternal memory to the victims of Fascism who perished in 1941: Potash Osher, Sore-Hena, Nakhman, Ema, Boris and his family, Asia and children, Most Rafail and Tsilia, Nakhman, Mina, Moshe, Fesha, Motl, Zaremeo Haim, Etl and children, from the relatives.
Commissioned by
Relatives of the victims
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
The killing of Krāslava Jews began on June 29, 1941, and continued until September 19, 1941. Several hundred Jews were killed in different sites in the city, and the majority of Jews were transferred to the ghetto in Daugavpils on July 26, 1941.
After WWII, victims of the Nazis killed in different places in Krāslava were reinterred near the crossing of Vienibas and Rifas Streets. Some of the Jewish victims were reinterred in the Jewish cemetery.
It is not clear if this monument marks a grave where victims were reinterred or if it is a cenotaph for those people, whose grave is unknown.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), pp. 173-180.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), pp. 207-212.