Obj. ID: 54105
  Memorials Reburial of the Holocaust Victims from Dobele in the Šmerli New Jewish Cemetery in Riga, Latvia, 1950
To the main object: Šmerli New Jewish Cemetery in Riga, Latvia
Memorial Name
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
49 Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Dobele.
Description:
A reddish granite stele on a base marks the long mass grave of 49 Jewish Holocaust victims from Dobele, reinterred here in 1950. The stele bears the Star of David with the letters pei nun and a Hebrew inscription.
Inscription:
פ"נ
ההרוגים עיר דאבעלע
שנהרגו על ידי ההיטלעריסטים
ימח שמם וזכרם
1944 – 1941
Translation: Here are buried the murdered [from] the city of Dobele, that were murdered by the Hitlerites, may their name and memory be obliterated, 1941–1944.
Commissioned by
Jews of Dobele
sub-set tree: 
At the beginning of July 1941, the Jews of Dobele were concentrated in the old primary school. After a couple of days (probably on July 12), the Jews were taken from the school to the Lielbērze Forest, where a German SD unit, assisted by members of the local self–defence groups, murdered them. According to the data of the State Extraordinary Commission, 49 Jews were shot in the forest.
In 1950, the surviving Jews of Dobele reinterred the remains of Jews from the Lielbērze Forest, in the New Jewish Cemetery in Riga.
"Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia," a website by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, http://memorialplaces.lu.lv/memorial-places/riga-and-riga-district/riga-the-new-jewish-cemetery-monument-to-the-jews-of-dobele/.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013)
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), pp. 156-157.