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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Arshavsky, Zoya, 2009

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jews of Varakļāni murdered by the Nazis.

Description:

The memorial is a black concrete stele with a white marble plaque. The plaque bears a Star of David with the abbreviation פ"נ, as it is common in Jewish tombstones and similar (but not identical) inscriptions in Yiddish and Russian. These inscriptions are completely identical to the inscriptions on the monument in Preiļi (see here).

Inscriptions

Yiddish

פ"נ

מיר וועלן אייביק געדיינקן
אונזערע עלטערן, ברידער, שוועסטער
און קינדער, וועלכע זיינען אומגעקומען
פון די מערדערישע פאשיסטישע
הענד י"א מנחם-אב שנת ה'ת'ש'א'
ת'נ'צ'ב'ה'

Translation: Here are buried. We will remember forever / our parents, brothers, sisters / and kinder, who perished at the hands of fascist murderers on 11 of Maneham-Av 5701. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.

Russian

Мы вечно будем скорбить
о наших родителях,
братьях и сестрах,
погибших от рук фашистов в 1941 г.

Translation: We will grieve forever / about our parents, / brothers and sisters / who perished at the hands of fascists in 1941.

Commissioned by

Jews originating in Varakļāni

Name/Title
Monument at the Killing Site in the Jewish Cemetery in Varakļāni | Unknown
Object Detail
Holocaust Memorial
Date
1950s (?)
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Artist/ Maker
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Location
Latvia | Latgale | Varakļāni
| Kapsētas St.
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