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  Reburial of the Holocaust Victims from Dobele in the Šmerli New Jewish Cemetery in Riga, Latvia, 1950

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2024

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

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Reburial of the Holocaust Victims from Dobele in the Šmerli New Jewish Cemetery in Riga | Unknown
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1950
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80 cm (stele), 66 (base)
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58 cm (stele), 63 cm (base)
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9 cm (stele), 29 cm (base)
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History/Provenance

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.

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/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.
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Vladimir Levin | 2024
Author of description
Vladimir Levin | 2024
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