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

Rezekne Street

During the last days of July 1941, some forty Jews from Ludza who were unable to work were shot, by order of the German commandant, at the end of Rezekne (Rezhitsa) Street, at the site of the former rope factory. Among the victims was the Ludza Rabbi, Ben Zion Don Ichye. The murders were carried out by a group of Latvians from Riga. The killing occurred around midnight, and took place by the light of bonfires, in which books by Jewish authors were burnt.

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ChGK Soviet Reports