Img. ID: 545173
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews murdered in the Rumbula Forest
Description:
In October 1962, a wooden plaque with the Yiddish inscription was affixed to a pine tree (for the image, see Tseitlin, p. 334 or Meler). This plaque was in place until 1964.
In the next two years, the killing site was further memorialized by a group of activists. They installed a number of objects that included large Magen Davids, a wooden stele with a fragment of the painting "Last Way" by Joseph Kuzkovsky, and a board depicting a Jewish man rising from the grave with his fist clenched (see history).
Inscription
The inscription in Yiddish read:
דא איז פארשטומט
געווארן די שטים
פון 38000 ריג.. ייד..
XI 29-30 XII 9-8 י'-יח' כסלו
Translation: Here the voices of 38,000 Jews of Riga were stilled, November 29-30 [1941] December 8-9 [1941], Kislev 10-18
[In the 1960s, the estimates were that 38,000 Jews were killed at the site]
Commissioned by
Jews of Riga
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