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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Kravtsov, Sergey, 2007 , (Negative/Photo.:   A307828.jpg)

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust victims from Aizpute.

Description:

A metal plaque is affixed to the building of the Beit Midrash in Aizpute, which has been united after WWII with the building of the Synagogue. It contains identical inscriptions in Latvian, English, and Hebrew, the only difference is that the Hebrew text contains also the words “May their memory be blessed!”

Inscriptions

Latvian

Aizputes Sinagoga

1752–1941

1941. gada vasarā un rudenī no savām mājām un šīs ēkas
savā pēdējā ceļā tika aizvesti vairāk nekā 300 aizputnieku,
kurus noslepkavoja tikai tādēļ, ka niņi bija ebreji.

Translation: The synagogue in Aizpute (1752–1941). In the summer and autumn of 1941, from their homes and this building, more than 300 Aizpute residents were taken on their
last journey; they were murdered only because they were Jews.

English

Aizpute Synagogue

1752–1941

From their homes and this building, more than 300 Aizpute residents were taken on their
last journey in the summer and autumn of 1941. They were murdered only because
they were Jews.

Hebrew

בית הכנסת באייספוטה

(תקי"ב – תש"ב)

מבתיהם ומבנין זה, יותר משלש מאות (300) מתושבי אייספוטה נלקחו למסעם האחרון בקיץ וסתיו
של תש"א/תש"ב (1941). הם נרצחו רק משום ביותם יהודים. יהיה זכרם ברוך!

Translation: The synagogue in Aizpute (1752–1941). From their homes and this building, more than 300 Aizpute residents were taken on their last journey in the summer and autumn of 1941. They were murdered only because
they were Jews. May their memory be blessed!

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Holocaust Memorial Plaque on the Beit Midrash in Aizpute | Unknown
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2000 (?)
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Latvia | Kurzeme | Aizpute
| 16 Atmodas St.
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