Obj. ID: 52617
Memorials Monument to the Rubin Family at the Mass Grave in the Jewish Cemetery in Zilupe, Latvia, 1970s(?)
To the main object: Monument at the Mass Grave in the Jewish Cemetery in Zilupe, Latvia, 1960s(?)
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Four members of the Rubin Family who perished in the Holocaust and were reinterred here.
Description:
The monument stands at the mass grave, on the left of the main stele (see here). It is a granite stele, bearing the Star of David with the letters פ"נ and inscriptions in Hebrew and Russian.
Inscription
Hebrew
רובין
ישראל אליהו
גיטה
אפרים יעקב
העניע
Translation: Rubin, Israel Eliyahu, Gita, Efreim Yaakov, Henie.
Russian:
В память семейства
РУБИН
1941
Translation: In memory of the Rubin Family, 1941.
Commissioned by
Surviving members of the Rubin Family
2 image(s)
sub-set tree:
The German troops arrived in Zilupe on July 5, 1941. The first murder of Jewish men took place at the end of July 1941, near the village of Rakšina. In late August or early September 1941, all remaining Jews of Zilupe were collected in the market square, on the pretext of their transfer to Ludza. Groups of 10-15 people were taken to the road leading to Ludza and shot dead near the village of Zabolocki.
It is not known who, besides the Rubin Family, was reinterred in this grave in the Jewish cemetery and when the monument was erected.
"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/zilupe-municipality-zilupe-jewish-cemetery/.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 445.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), p. 181.