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© Josef Schneider, Photographer: Schneider, Josef (1927-2006), April 2, 1963 (?) , (Negative/Photo.:   A619772)

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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Old Holocaust memorials in Rumbula near Riga | Unknown
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Kuzkovski, Joseph (1902 - 1970)
{"5117":"Kuzkovski (Kuzkovsky, \u041a\u0443\u0437\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439, \u05e7\u05d5\u05d6\u05e7\u05d5\u05d1\u05e1\u05e7\u05d9\u200f) was born in 1902 in Mogilev. In 1927-29, he studied at the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts. Kuzkovski was interested in Jewish subjects since 1938. During World War II, he lived in Uzbekistan. After 1945, Kuzkovski resided in Riga, where he was active in the Soviet official art production but also devoted several major works to the Holocaust. Since the 1960s was active in the Zionist movement in Soviet Riga. On April 19, 1963, he and his friends held a ceremony devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. The ceremony took place in the Rumbula Forest, a site, where 25,000 Jews were murdered.In 1969, He with his wife moved to Israel. His major piece \"The Last Way\" devoted to Babii Yar is on permanent display in Knesset."}
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