Obj. ID: 52595 New Monument at the Murder Place near Zilupe, Latvia, 2009
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Zilupe murdered on this site.
Description:
The monument stands in a forest, about 50 meters from the original monument on the mass grave (see here). It is a low granite stele of uneven form on a small granite pedestal. The stele bears the Star of David with the Hebrew letters פ.נ., a Latvian inscription, the abbreviation תנצב"ה (May their souls be bound in the bundle of life), a dedication to the sister of the donor, and the date.
Inscription
Latvian
1941. gada jūlijā un augustā
nacisti un vinu atbalstītāji
Zabolockos noslepkavoja 246
Zilupes novada ebrejus un 5
neebreju tautības cilvēkus
Translation: In July and August 1941, Nazis and their supporters, in Zabolocki, murdered 246 Jews from Zilupe municipality and 5 people of non–Jewish nationality.
Hebrew
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
Translation: May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Latvian
Par godu savai māsai Etelei
ziedoja I. Arons
2009
Translation: In honor of his sister Ethel, donated by I. Aron. 2009.
Commissioned by
Ilya Aron, a former resident of Zilupe
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The German troops arrived in Zilupe on July 5, 1941. The first murder of Jewish men took place at the end of July 1941, near the village of Rokšino. In late August or early September 1941, all remaining Jews of Zilupe were collected in the market square, on the pretext of their transfer to Ludza. Groups of 10-15 people were taken to the road leading to Ludza and shot dead near the village of Zabolocki. Later, the Jews murdered near Rokšino were also reinterred here.
A monument on the killing site was erected in 1961 (Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia) (see here). In 2009, an additional monument was built by Ilya Aron, a former resident of Zilupe, in memory of his sister Etel.
"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/zilupe-municipality-zilupe-zabolocki/.
Meler, Meyer, Jewish Latvia: Sites to Remember (Tel-Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 2013), p. 443.
Meler, Meyer, Mesta nashei pamiati: Evreiskie obshchiny Latvii, unichtozhennye v Kholokoste (Riga: by the author, 2010), p. 179.