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

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Community:

Ludza

Murder Sites:

The Brick Factory

Rezekne Street

Pogulyanka

The Garbarovsky Forest

Commemoration:

Commemoration of Jewish Victims

Memorial ceremony at the Pogulyanka murder site, August 18, 1972
Courtesy Aron Shneer

Left: the monument moved to the Jewish Cemetery
Courtesy Aron Shneer

Gravestone of the last Ludza Rabbi, Ben Zion Don Ichye, reburied at the Jewish Cemetery
Courtesy Aron Shneer

Memorial at the site of the Ludza ghetto
Courtesy Aron Shneer

A monument commemorating the Jewish victims of Ludza was erected at the Pogulyanka murder site in the 1960s, with local school volunteers looking after it ever since. In 1992, a new monument was erected at the Pogulyanka murder site, with inscriptions in Yiddish, Latvian and Russian. The old monument was removed to the Jewish cemetery, where the remains of Rabbi Ben Zion Don Ichye were reburied in the 1950s.
In the 1990s, an additional monument was erected on the town’s embankment, at the site of the former ghetto boundary. The monument bears the following inscription in Yiddish, Russian and Latvian: “Here moans the land of the Jewish ghetto.”
Each year, on the second Sunday in August, a mournful procession and gathering are held at the memorial in the area of the former ghetto with the participation of the relatives of the Jewish victims and the support of the local authorities; a second gathering is held afterwards at the monument in Pogulyanka.

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