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Obj. ID: 44108
Jewish Funerary Art
  Second Holocaust Monument in the Jewish cemetery in Dagda, Latvia, before 1954(?)

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 4.2022

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Dagda Jews murdered in this place.

Description:

The monument is situated in the southwestern corner of the cemetery. It stands on a terrain that looks like a mass grave, surrounded by a metal fence.

The monument is a black marble obelisk in secondary use. It was probably produced in the beginning of the 20th century. Since there are no similar obelisks or other tombstones of the same scale in the Dagda cemetery, the monument was probably brought from Riga. The original inscription was removed, and a new one, in Russian, was added.

Inscription

Russian

Здесь в июле 1941 г. зверски убиты
немецко-фашистскими захватчиками
и их пособниками мирные жители
м. Дагды
Э. и Х. Гординьс, Я. Сегаль
И Каган и дочь
сем. Льгов–Букенгольц
З. Израйлит, С. Каган и другие

Translation: Here, in July 1941, were brutally killed by German fascist occupiers and their helpers, peaceful residents of the town of Dagda, E. and Kh. Gordiņs, Ya. Segal, I. Kagan and his daughter, the family of L'gov-Buchenholtz, Z. Izrailit, S Kagan and others.

Commissioned by

Jews originating from Dagda

Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Second Holocaust Monument in the Jewish cemetery in Dagda | Unknown
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before 1954 (?)
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History/Provenance

“The Nazi troops occupied Dagda on June 28, 1941. The Jews of Dagda were arrested on July 25. Initially the arrested Jews were placed in a shed next to the commandant’s office, but later practically all of them were shot at the Dagda Jewish Cemetery and in the Murāni Pine Forest. Part of the Jews from Dagda were transported to the Daugavpils ghetto, however, not all of them reached it, one group of those who were being transported was shot by the local self–defenders on the way, approximately 300 m from Kalna Višķi (see here).” (Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia)

Two monuments were erected in the Jewish cemetery of Dagda (for the other monument, see here). Both are marble obelisks in secondary use, probably brought from Riga. Russian texts written in a similar way allow for a suggestion that both were erected at the same time by the same people. Probably, it happened before 1954, when the existence of the first monument was mentioned by the authorities (Lenskis, p. 26). 

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/latgale/dagda-municipality-the-dagda-jewish-cemetery/.

Lenskis, Ilja, Holokausta piemina Latvijā laika gaitā 1945–2015 = Holocaust Commemoration in Latvia in the Course of Time, 1945–2015 (Riga: Muzejs “Ebreju Latvija,” 2017), p. 26.

Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), pp. 71-72.

Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), pp. 131-132.

Rochko, Josif, Jewish Latgale: Guidebook (Daugavpils, by the author, 2018), pp. 62-63.
Type
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Vladimir Levin, Milda Jakulytė | 2022
Author of description
Vladimir Levin | 2023
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