Img. ID: 409045
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust victims from Rēzekne
Description:
The monument is situated near the today’s entrance to the Jewish cemetery.
It is a high stele of gray granite of uneven form placed on a concrete pedestal. A Star of David of the Hebrew letters פ"נ appears in the upper part of the stele. Under it, there are three almost identical inscriptions in Yiddish, Russian, and Latvian, divided by horizontal bars with small Stars of David.
Inscriptions
In Yiddish
מיר וועלן אייביק געדענקן
אונזערע עלטערן ברודער
שוועסטער און קינדער וועלכע
זיינען אומגעקומען פון די
מערדערישע פאשיסטישע הענט
אין יאר
1941
Translation: We will forever remember our parents, brothers, sisters, and children. who perished at the hands of the Fascist murderers in 1941.
In Russian
Мы вечно будем скорбить [скорбеть]
о наших родителях, детях,
братьях и сестрах, погибших
от рук фашистов в 1941 году
Translation: We will forever mourn our parents, children, brothers, and sisters who perished at the hands of the Fascists in 1941.
In Latvian
Mēs mūžīgi sērosim par mūsu
vecākiem, bērniem, brāliem
un māsām bojā gājušajiem
no fašisma terora 1941. gada
Translation: We will forever mourn our parents, children, brothers, and sisters who died from the fascist terror in 1941.
Commissioned by
Jews of Rēzekne