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© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2023 , (Negative/Photo.:   A587765)

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust victims in Malta

Description:

The monument stands near the House of Culture of Malta and near the main road crossing the settlement.

It is a black granite stele on a low granite pedestal standing in the center of a paved area. The stele bears the Star of David and three identical inscriptions in Latvian, English, and Hebrew.

Latvian

Maltas ebreju piemiņai,
kurus 1941. gada septembrī
noslepkavoja vietējie
policisti-nacistisko
okupantu brīvprātīgie.

English

In memory of Jews of Malta
who had been murdered here
by the local policemen –
the voluntary collaborators
of the Nazi occupants
in September of 1941.

Hebrew

לזכר יהודי מאלטה אשר נרצחו כאן
בידי שוטרי המקום
אשר התנדבו לסייע לכובש הנאצי
ספטמבר 1941

Commissioned by

The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia 

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Holocaust Memorial in Malta | Unknown
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2004
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Latvia | Latgale | Malta (Latvia)
| near Maltas Kultūras nams, 1.maija St.
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