Obj. ID: 44154
Jewish Funerary Art Memorial at the Killing Site in Aknīste, Latvia, 2020
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Aknīste victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The monument is situated in a field where Aknīste Jews were murdered. It is a local boulder standing on a base made of another boulder. A sunken panel on the boulder's front contains the Star of David and the date of the mass murder, July 18, 1941.
Inscription
18.07.1941.
Commissioned by
The Aknīste municipality, the local history museum, and the Lutheran church.
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Arrests of Aknīste Jews began in mid–July 1941. For a couple of days, about 150–170 Jews were imprisoned in the hall of the hotel “Austrija.” Part of them were murdered in the hotel yard on 18 July by the self–defence unit of Ilūkste; the other part was taken to the outskirts of the town – the end of Jaunā Street – and shot there.
After WWII, the murdered Jews were reburied in a mass grave behind the municipal cemetery (see here).
The memorial stone was inaugurated on October 27, 2020.
"A memorial stone to the victims of the Holocaust has been unveiled in Akniste," Baltic News, October 27, 2020, https://baltics.news/2020/10/27/a-memorial-stone-to-the-victims-of-the-holocaust-has-been-unveiled-in-akniste/ (accessed November 1, 2023)
"Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia," a website by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, http://memorialplaces.lu.lv/memorial-places/zemgale/akniste-municipality-akniste/.