Img. ID: 409712
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Victims of the Ludza Ghetto, reinterred in the cemetery after WWII.
Description:
This is a mass grave of Jewish victims from the Ludza Ghetto reinterred here after WWII.
Three stelas are situated on the grave.
The oldest one, in the middle, was made of stone in the 1950s. On its side looking toward the grave, there is a Russian inscription “To the victims of Fascism, 1941,” while a long Hebrew inscription appears on the other side.
The second stele, on the right, was made of red granite in 1961, see:
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The third stele, on the left, was erected in the 1990s, see:
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Inscriptions
Russian:
Жертвам
фашизма
1941 г.
Translation: To the victims of Fascism, 1941
Hebrew:
מצבת זכרון
חרותה בלבינו נוזלות
דמעות מעינינו על זקנינו
נשינו וטפינו נפטרו
על ידי הרוצחים
הפאשיסטן שנשרפו
[ר]בנינו דקהילתינו
וינקום נקמת דם
עבדיך השפוך
Translation: Monument of memory, inscribed in our hearts, tears are running from our eyes about our old people, our women and our children, killed by the Fascist murderers, our rabbis of our community. [He] will revenge the spilled blood of Your servants [Ps. 79:10].
Commissioned by
Surviving Jews of Ludza