The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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Liepaja

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The Lighthouse south of Liepaja

Skede

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Righteous Among the Nations

Arnolds Gludausis

Righteous Among the Nations Arnolds Gludausis
YVA, Righteous Among the Nations M.31 8044

Holocaust Survivor Ella Solomir
YVA, Righteous Among the Nations M.31/9998

Arnolds Gludausis (b. 1924) lived in the city of Liepaja on the banks of the Baltic Sea. On June 29, 1941, the Germans occupied the city, and Gludausis immediately took steps to help his Jewish friends. From the first weeks of the occupation, Gludausis hid Ella Solomir, a former classmate, in the basement of his home, and also helped Mrs. Brozgal and her six-year-old daughter Eidija (later Tupika) as much as he could. Throughout the years of the occupation, the two hid in stables and cellars in abandoned buildings, and Gludausis brought them food and clothing. He was their only link with the outside world, and it was only through him that Brozgal and her daughter learned what was happening in the city during the war. Solomir remained with Gludausis until early 1942, when she went to find out what had happened to her parents, and was arrested. During her interrogation, Solomir claimed that she had been hiding in the fields. In June 1942, when she was interned in the ghetto, she discovered that her parents had perished in the first wave of pogroms. From the Liepaja ghetto, Solomir was transferred to a concentration camp near Riga, and in 1944, was sent to the Stutthof concentration camp, where she remained until liberation. At the end of the war, Solomir returned to Liepaja and several years later married Gludausis. Brozgal and her daughter were liberated on May 9, 1945, and remained eternally grateful to Gludausis.

On April 19, 1998, Yad Vashem recognized Arnolds Gludausis as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Eidija Tupika was born in 1935 in Liepaja, and lived there during the war years. She is a daughter of Mrs. Brozgal, who survived the Holocaust with the help of Arnolds Gludausis
(Interview in Russian)

Related Resources

List of Jewish Victims

Righteous Among the Nations