Obj. ID: 50158 Holocaust Memorial near the river bank and the Jewish cemetery in Krāslava, Latvia, 2008
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Krāslava Jews shot by the Nazis on the bank of the Daugava River near the turpentine factory
Description:
The monument is situated close to the wall of the Jewish cemetery. It is a low stele of red granite with a Latvian inscription, the Hebrew acronym תנצב"ה, and two Stars of David.
Inscription
Latvian
1941. gada jūlijā un augustā
upes krastā
tika noslepkavoti ap 200
Krāslavas ebreju
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
Latvias ebreju draudžu un kopienu padome
Translation: In July and August 1941, 200 Jews of Krāslava were murdered on the river bank. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life. The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia.
Commissioned by
The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia
4 image(s)
Already on June 29, 1941, Latvian “self-defenders” shot the first group of 30 Jews down at the bank of the Daugava River near the turpentine factory. In July 1941, they shot two Jews at the fence of the Jewish cemetery and six more at the river bank. In August 1941, about 120 or 200 Jews remaining in Krāslava, after most of the Jews were transferred to the ghetto in Daugavpils, were killed near the turpentine factory not far from the river bank.
After WWII, victims of the Nazis killed in different places in Krāslava were reinterred near the crossing of Vienibas and Rifas Streets. Some of the Jewish victims were reinterred in the Jewish cemetery (see here and here).
The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia erected the monument in 2008.
"Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia," a website by the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, http://memorialplaces.lu.lv/memorial-places/latgale/kraslava-municipality-kraslava-the-bank-of-the-daugava-river/.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), pp. 173-180.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), pp. 207-212.
Rochko, Josif, Jewish Latgale: Guidebook (Daugavpils, by the author, 2018), p. 45.