Img. ID: 411197
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Aknīste, victims of the Holocaust, reburied at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated behind the municipal (Christian) cemetery of Aknīste. Near the mass grave, the graves of Latvian partisans were placed in the 1990s.
The mass grave where the murdered Jews of Aknīste were registered, is surrounded by a metal fence with concrete posts. In the center, there is a red granite stele placed on a high concrete pedestal. On its side facing the mass grave, a Russian inscription reads "Eternal memory to the victims of the fascist terror, 1941."
Inscription
Russian
Вечная
память
жертвам
фашмстского
террора
1941 г.
Translation: Eternal memory to the victims of the fascist terror, 1941.
Commissioned by
Hone Halsmann, the head of the executive committee of the town of Aknīste