Pretošanās padomju okupācijas režīmam Zemgalē

Íle rahvuspartisanide vendade haud rajati Birze valla Virkuse kalmistule 14. novembril 1992, mil siia maeti 17. märtsil 1949 Íle lahingus hukkunud 15 partisani. See sai võimalikuks pärast seda, kui 18. juulil 1992 kaevasid rahvuskaardid koos organisatsiooniga "Daugavas Vanagi" ja Läti ajaloo uurimise töörühmaga "Ziemeļblāzma" teiste rahvusliku suunitlusega organisatsioonide esindajate osalusel välja aastal maetud isiku. õhku lastud partisanipunker Zebrene valla Īle metsaalal 15 Läti ja Leedu metsavenna säilmed.

Île lahingus langenud rahvuspartisanide mälestuskivi avati 29. mail 1993. aastal. See põhineb metal, mille töötas välja Alfons Kalniņš ("Edgars"), üks 1949. aasta 17. märtsi lahingus ellujäänud osalejaid. Korrapärase kujuga graniitplaadil on kujutatud mõõk ja tõusev päike ning sisse kirjutatud tekst 15 langenud rahvuspartisani nimega ja kiri:

"Päike tõusis mõõgast. Siin hukkusid 1949. aastal Île lähedal toimunud lahingus Läti ja Leedu rahvuspartisanid. 17. märtsil".

Hauamonument Naudīte valla rahvuspartisanile Bruno Druķile, kes langes 30. juunil 1941 kokkupõrkes Nõukogude okupatsioonivõimude relvastatud koosseisudega. Hauale on paigaldatud graniidist stele tekstiga: "Partisan Bruno Druķisele". Langes 1940.30.VI. See maa on meie rahva jaoks püha pärand. Ja õnnistatud on see, kes tema pärast ohutult langeb. Naudītes vald". B. Drukise portreega keraamiline medaljon purustati ja hävis pärast Teist maailmasõda.

Pärast Saksa-NSVL sõja algust, 27. juunil 1941, kogunes Ruženi metsa kümmekond kohalikku kaitsjat, kes moodustasid Zhan Gelsoniga eesotsas rahvuspartisanide üksuse. Järgmisel päeval hõivasid partisanid Naudīte valla täitevkomitee ning kohaliku masina- ja hobuste laenutusjaama, võttes enda valdusse sealsed traktorid, põllutehnika ja hobused. 30. juunil üritas Naudīte partisaniüksus Melļi lähedal maanteel kinni pidada kahe ohvitseri juhitud punaarmeelaste kolonni. Kokkupõrke käigus langesid Läti armee ratsaväerügemendi kaks Nõukogude ohvitseri ja erru läinud kapral Bruno Druķis.

Punker asub Zebrene vallas, vähem kui 1 km kaugusel P104 Biksti - Auce maanteest. 

Balti riikide suurima punkri ehitasid 1948. aastal Īle metsadesse Läti-Leedu ühendrühma partisanid, et jätkata oma võitlust nõukogude võimu vastu. 27-liikmelist rühma juhtis noor komandör Kārlis Krauja (tegelik nimi Visvaldis Brizga).

17. märtsil 1949 pidasid 24 partisani, kes olid sel ajal punkris, oma viimase lahingu 760-liikmelise riikliku julgeoleku ministeeriumi ehk Tšeka väe vastu. 15 sissit tapeti, üheksa võeti kinni ja küüditati koos oma toetajatega Siberisse.
 
1992. aastal kaevasid kodukaitsjad koos Daugava haukude ja patriootiliste organisatsioonide esindajatega punkri välja, kogusid langenud võitlejate luud kokku ja matsid need Dobele Virki kalmistule. Punkri juurde püstitati valge rist, mälestuskivi ja graniidist stele.
 
Juba 1990ndate keskel joonistati punkri piirjooned ja tugevdati sisemised seinad, kuid alles lahingu 60. aastapäevaks ehitati punker uuesti üles täpselt sellisena, nagu see oli enne õhku laskmist. Paljud toetajad ja vabatahtlikud aitasid seda ellu viia.
 
Punkri sees on näha pliit, laud ja kitsad pingid, millel partisanid magasid. Seal on infotahvlid, mälestuskivid partisanide ja nende toetajate nimedega. 

Seal on puhkekoht ja tualett. 

Nõukogude okupatsioonirežiimi vastu võidelnute ja kommunistlike repressioonide ohvrite mälestuspaik avati 1. septembril 1995 Zebrene vallas Reņģese mõisa pargis. Karedal rahnul on kujutatud rist ja graveeritud sõnad: "Punase terrori ohvritele Zebrenes, Teises maailmasõjas langenud rahvusvõitlejatele". Mälestusmärgi loomist toetas rahaliselt organisatsioon "Daugavas Vanagi".

Endise Ukru kihelkonnakooli juures asuv Läti ja Leedu rahvuspartisanide mälestuspaik avati ja pühitseti sisse 21. oktoobril 2006. aastal. Sellesse on paigaldatud valge rist, mille jalamil on graniidist stele kahe lätlase ja kahe leedu rahvuspartisani nikerdatud nimede ja tekstiga: „Sinule, isamaa. Ukru valla rahvuspartisanidele 1944-1954. Võitluses kommunistliku okupatsioonirežiimi vastu 26. oktoobril 1948 langesid Ukru vallas Eidis-Eduards Ozols, Kristaps Silķke, Alfonsas Bugnius, Kostas Norvaitis.

Mälestusmärgi on korraldanud Läti Rahvuspartisanide Ühing (LNPA) koostöös Leedu Vabadusvõitlejate Ühendusega (LLKS). Selle avamisel osalesid Ukru vallavolikogu esimees Ainārs Āriņš, LNPA esimees Ojārs Stefans, LLKS esindaja Jons Čepon ja teised kohalviibijad.

28. juunil 1941 langenud Jēkabnieku valla rahvuspartisani Harry Ginteri hauakivi. Tahvel tekstiga: “Harry Gunter. Sündinud 1912.30 VIII. Langes oma kodumaa eest 1941.28.VI. Kallis ema, see, mida sa nutad, kustutab katlakivi, mine magama. Asjata, asjata ootad sa poega, asjata valad sa kibedaid pisaraid." Hauakivi restaureeriti 2016. ja 2024. aastal Zalenieki vallas asuva ůžinu raamatukogu juhataja Gunita Kulmanese eestvõttel ja tema isiklikul kulul.

Järgmistel päevadel pärast Saksa-NSVL sõja algust 22. juunil 1941 moodustati Jēkabnieku vallas korra tagamiseks ja Nõukogude okupatsiooni lõpetamiseks rahvuspartisanide üksus, mida juhtis vahirühma ülem V. Ritumu. . Esialgu täiendati nõrka relvastust - paar püstolit ja vintpüssi - Kalnanši lähedal ja mujal kinni peetud punaarmeelaste trofeerelvadega. Suurem kokkupõrge Nõukogude relvaformeeringutega toimus 28. juunil 1941 Gudėnis, milles tabati ja piinati surnuks Jēkabnieku koguduse valvur ja rahvuspartisan H. Gunters.

1944. aasta juuli-augusti Jelgava teise Nõukogude okupatsiooni vastaste kaitselahingutes osalejate mälestuspaik avati 8. mail 1995 Rūpniečiase ja Tērvetese tänavate ristmikul. Selle sündmuse auks peeti jumalateenistus Jelgava St. Anna evangeelse luterliku kiriku ja lipumarss läbi Jelgava. Mälestuspaigal seisab ebakorrapärase kujuga graniidist stele, mille rist tõuseb mõõgatera sisse. Selle kõrval vasakul on kärbitud rööptahuka kujuline graniitplokk tekstiga "Jelgava kaitsjad 1944.28.VII-8.VIII".

Sõjategevus Jelgavas algas pärast seda, kui NSVL väed okupeerisid Šauliase Leedus 27. juulil 1944 ja jätkasid rünnakut põhja poole. Püüdes Punaarmeed tõrjuda, kuulutas äsja ametisse nimetatud Jelgava sõja komandör kindralleitnant Johan Flugbeils selle "linnakindluseks", kuna kaitseks tuli kasutada kõiki olemasolevaid jõude. Algselt moodustasid Jelgava kaitsjate tuumiku 15. Läti relvade SS-diviisi väljaõppe- ja reservbrigaadi sõdurid kolonelleitnant Hermani Jurko juhtimisel ja mõned Saksa väikeüksused. 27. juuli pärastlõunal alustas Nõukogude 3. õhuarmee Jelgava pommitamist, rünnates mitte ainult linnas ja selle äärealadel asuvaid sõjalisi strateegilisi objekte - raudteejaama ja teid, vaid süüdates ka osa elumaju. Linna hooned ja tsiviilisikud said kannatada mõlema sõdiva poole vastastikku tulistatud Katjuša raketisüsteemide, suurtükkide ja miinipildujate tules.

28. juulil alustasid Nõukogude 3. kaardiväe mehhaniseeritud korpuse üksused rünnakut linna lõunaservale, kuid see ei õnnestunud. 30. juuli hommikul tugevdasid rünnakut 51. armee 279. ja 347. laskurdiviisid. Kuigi järgmisel päeval teatas Moskva raadio juba linna vallutamisest, olid NSV Liidu väed koos abivägedega suutnud kesklinna tungida, kuid mitte seda täielikult vallutada. Lielupe parem kallas ja kindlustatud sillapea Driksa silla juures jäid Punaarmee poolt okupeerimata. Ägedad lahingud käisid ka augusti alguses Nõukogude vägede kontrolli alla sattunud Jelgava lossis. Punaarmee tõi lossi kahureid ja tulistas selle akende kaudu Saksa ja Läti sõdurite positsioone Kalnciemsi teel. Järgnes Saksa raskekahurväe vastutuli, mis kahjustas lossi põhjalikult. 4. augustil õnnestus Jelgava kaitsjatel pärast abivägede saamist linn ajutiselt enda kontrolli alla võtta. Nõukogude vägede massiline löök sundis aga Saksa ja Läti sõdurid pärast kolme päeva möödumist Jelgavast lahkuma.

Praeguse Paula Bendrupi algkooli (endine Kurlmēmo kool) hoones Filozofu tänav 50, pärast Jelgava hävitamist NSVL-Saksa sõja ajal juulis-augustis 1944 ja linna sattumist teise Nõukogude okupatsiooni võimu alla, Jelgava asus 2. (nais)gümnaasium. 1945. aasta sügisel õppis seal mitu noorte vastupanuorganisatsiooni "Kolmetähe kolonn" liiget.

Novembris 1945 arreteerisid Nõukogude julgeolekuorganid selle organisatsiooni 20 liiget, enamasti vaid 16–17-aastased, sealhulgas 13 poissi ja seitse tüdrukut ning veel kaks nende toetajat. Jelgava noori süüdistati illegaalsete koosolekute ja nõukogudevastase agitatsiooni korraldamises, relvade ja laskemoona kogumises, suhkruvabriku filtreerimislaagris vangidele toidu toimetamises, Leedu rahvuspartisanide toetamises, samuti muudes okupatsioonirežiimi vastastes kuritegudes. NSVL.

23. mail 1946 mõistis Balti sõjaringkonna tribunal süüdi 19 organisatsiooni "Kolm Tähe kolonn" liiget, mõistes neile 10 aastat vangistust Gulagi laagrites ja õiguste piiramist 5 aastaks. Pärast üheksa-aastast vangistust Permis, Bereznikis, Norilskis ja Karagandas sai nende naasmine kodumaale võimalikuks aasta pärast Stalini surma 1954. aastal.

Mõni päev pärast Läti okupeerimist NSV Liidu poolt 20. juunil 1940 moodustati Jelgava Riiklikus Õpetajate Instituudis umbes 20-liikmeline noorte vastupanuorganisatsioon, kuhu kuulusid endised Cēsi Õpetajate Instituudi õpilased Viktors Daniels, Arturs. Tegutsesid Neparts, Vilhelms Pētersons, Fricis Sīpols jt. Selle liikmed kogunesid salakoosolekutele ja levitasid nõukogudevastaseid loosungeid loosungiga "Kommunism peab surema, et Läti saaks elada". Jelgava Õpetajate Instituudi lõpetanud, Riia 8. algkooli õpetaja Arnold Saulīte kaudu õnnestus hankida välisraadiouudistest saadud infot, mis viitas Saksa-NSVL sõja peatsele algusele. Organisatsiooni liikme Olga Rubula korteris trükiti 4000 eksemplari nõukogudevastast loosungit, mida 13. mail 1941 levitati üheaegselt Jelgavas, Cēsises, Valmieras, Rēzeknes, Bauskas ja Tukumis.

Pärast sakslaste rünnakut NSV Liidule 22. juunil 1941 võtsid Jelgava Õpetajate Instituudi üliõpilased kontakti Läti armee ülemleitnandi Roberta Reķeliga ning osalesid aktiivselt Jelgavas sõjalises vaatluses ja sidepidamises. Mõni päev hiljem, kui algas Nõukogude okupatsioonirežiimi kokkuvarisemine, võtsid Jelgava noored Õpetajate Instituudis korravalvamise üle. Täiendavaid relvi ja laskemoona hankides ning Nõukogude julgeolekuorganite segadust ära kasutades õnnestus Fritz Balodi juhitud relvarühmitusel Jelgava vanglast vabastada umbes 100 kinnipeetavat, kes olid veel NSV Liitu evakueerimata.

A memorial site for the members of the youth resistance organization of Jelgava 1st Secondary School repressed by the communist regime in 1941 was established in 2007 at the initiative of the social and political activist and historian Andris Tomašūns. An oak tree was planted at the memorial site near Jelgava 1st Gymnasium (now Jelgava Technology Secondary School) and a boulder was placed with the following text engraved on it: “Memorial oak tree for Jelgava gymnasium students, members of the national resistance movement – who died in Siberia in 1940-1948. T. Bergs, V. Einfelds, A. Gaišs, I. Leimanis, J. Liepiņš, J. Jegermanis, I. Kārkliņš, O. Ošenieks, F. Skurstenis, A. Saldenais, A. Valkīrs, J. Valūns. 2000. O. Valkīrs, V. Treimanis and the 1st Gymnasium”.

The Jelgava student resistance organization “Free Latvia” was secretly founded on September 30, 1940, by six 11th grade students of Jelgava 1st Secondary School in the apartment of Fričas Skurstenis at 11-4 Slimnīcas Street. The organization was led by Juris Valūns and its members numbered about 20 people. They gathered in illegal meetings where they discussed the organization’s structure and activities. The young people printed the anti-Soviet slogan “Get ready!”, 100 copies of which were pasted around the city on October 14. From October 25, 1940 to November 6, Soviet security authorities arrested thirteen students of Jelgava 1st Secondary School, who were imprisoned in Jelgava prison and interrogated for a long time. 1941. In 1942, the detainees were taken to the USSR, where on February 7, 1942, the Special Meeting of the USSR People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs sentenced them to 10 years in prison. Only Voldemārs Treimanis survived and returned to Latvia, while the other members of the resistance organization of Jelgava 1st Secondary School died in the Gulag camps in 1942-1943.

A memorial plaque to the members of the youth resistance organization of Jelgava 1st Secondary School (previously Hercogs Pēteris Gymnasium) repressed by the communist regime was installed by the Jelgava branch of the Latvian Politically Repressed Association on October 24, 1996. Initially, the plaque was located inside the Ģ. Elias Jelgava History and Art Museum, but after the renovation of the building's facade and premises in 2007-2008. it was moved to the outer wall of the museum to the right of the main entrance, alongside memorial plaques dedicated to other historical figures. The text engraved on the plaque reads: “On 26 October 1940, students of the Hercogs Jēkabs Gymnasium arrested and deported to Siberia – members of the anti-Soviet movement “Free Latvia” T. Bergs, V. Einfelds, A. Engurs, A. Gaišs, J. Jegermanis, I. Kārkliņš, I. Leimanis, J. Liepiņš, O. Ošenieks, A. Saldenais, F. Skurstenis, V. Treimanis, A. Valkīrs, J. Valūns.”

The Jelgava student resistance organization “Free Latvia” was secretly founded on September 30, 1940, by six 11th grade students of Jelgava 1st Secondary School in the apartment of Fričas Skurstenis at 11-4 Slimnīcas Street. The organization was led by Juris Valūns and its members numbered about 20 people. They gathered in illegal meetings where they discussed the organization’s structure and activities. The young people printed the anti-Soviet slogan “Get ready!”, 100 copies of which were pasted around the city on October 14. From October 25, 1940 to November 6, Soviet security authorities arrested thirteen students of Jelgava 1st Secondary School, who were imprisoned in Jelgava prison and interrogated for a long time. 1941. In 1942, the detainees were taken to the USSR, where on February 7, 1942, the Special Meeting of the USSR People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs sentenced them to 10 years in prison. Only Voldemārs Treimanis survived and returned to Latvia, while the other members of the resistance organization of Jelgava 1st Secondary School died in the Gulag camps in 1942-1943.

In the tower of the St. Trinity Church in Jelgava, which was destroyed in the Soviet-German war in July-August 1944, on October 12, 1952, Egons Užkurelis, who was only 14 years old at the time, together with his friend Jānis Ģēģeris, who was a year older, hung a homemade Latvian national flag. This date was chosen because it was a Sunday when the Jelgava championship motorcycle racing took place in Pārlielupe, where many people gathered and from there the church tower could be clearly seen. The flag was made from a bed sheet, painted with watercolors. The way it was made later allowed the Chekists to guess that the flag-raisers should be sought among the students.

E. Užkurelis and J. Ģēģeri were arrested on October 23, 1952, followed by interrogation in Jelgava and at the Ministry of State Security of the Latvian SSR in Riga at the Corner House. The Criminal Court of the Riga Regional Court accused E. Užkurelis and J. Ģēģeri of anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation and participation in a counter-revolutionary organization. On January 10, 1953, E. Užkurelis was sentenced to five years in prison, and J. Ģēģeris to 15 years. E. Užkurelis was detained in Riga Central Prison for seven months until April 12, 1953, when he was released on the basis of an amnesty.

Several members of the academic unit “Austrums” and the Central Council of Latvia, secretly established in Riga on August 13, 1943, worked at the Agricultural Academy in Jelgava (Mītava) (today - the Latvian University of Biosciences and Technologies) in 1943-1944 - professors Rūdolfs Markuss, Andrejs Teikmanis, Alfrēds Tauriņš and other teaching staff. On March 10, 1944, Vilis Eihe, an assistant professor at the Agricultural Academy, together with his wife Aleksandrs and assistant Hermanis Zeltiņš, printed the LCP’s illegal newspaper “Jaunā Latvija” in Jelgava using a duplicating machine. It provided news about Latvia’s international situation and set out further guidelines for Latvian political life. Among the 188 Latvian socio-political workers who, in the LCP memorandum of March 17, 1944, expressed the need to restore an independent and democratic Republic of Latvia based on the 1922 Constitution, were the academic staff of the Agricultural Academy in Jelgava - professors Jānis Vārsbergs, Pāvils Kvelde, A. Teikmanis and R. Markuss.

The memorial site for the members of the Jānis Rozentāls – Jānis Freimanis national partisan group was established in 1996 in Iecava parish, on the site of the bunker of J. Freimanis' forest brothers' group. On the concrete base under a white birch cross, you can read the inscription "For the freedom of Latvia to the fallen national partisans" and the names of the forest brothers – Jānis Freimanis, Jānis Kāpostiņš and Laimonis Zīraks, who fell on January 11, 1950 in the former territory of Garoza parish of Jelgava district. Behind the monument, the site of the bunker is visible, but on the edge of the square there is a stand with information prepared by Bauska Museum historian Raits Ābelnieks about the national partisan group of J. Rozentāls and the Dūmiņš brothers, which operated in Iecava, Misa and Zālīte parishes in 1944-1947.

The Forest Brothers unit led by Jānis Rozentāls was formed in the summer of 1945, but by September it already had 11 partisans. This Forest Brothers group was active in the Iecava and Zālīte parishes of Bauska district, as well as in the Garoza, Salgale and Pēternieki parishes of Jelgava district. On August 13, 1948, the Chekists managed to kill the unit commander and his brother, capture three other partisans, but the remaining Forest Brothers of this group continued the fight against the occupiers under the leadership of Jānis Freimanis.

The memorial site at the Butki cemetery was established after the Bauska branch of the Environmental Protection Club cleaned up the graves of approximately 30 Latvian soldiers who fell in the battles for the defense of Bauska in 1944, buried in two columns, in the autumn of 1988, and decided to erect a monument. A collection of donations followed for the construction of the monument. The monument made of red granite, dedicated to the soldiers of the Bauska Volunteer Battalion buried here, was unveiled on November 25, 1989, but already on the night of December 4/5, 1990, it was blown up by the USSR occupation army. In 1992, a massive wooden cross was erected in place of the monument. On October 13, 2002, a new granite monument, similar to the previously destroyed monument, was unveiled with the text carved into it: “For the Freedom of Latvia Those Who Fell in 1944.”

The memorial site for the Bauska Volunteer Battalion in Jumpravmuiža Park was established in 1990 at the initiative of Imants Zaltiņš, a former soldier of this battalion. It is located at the place where Latvian soldiers prevented the first Red Army units from crossing the Lielupe River at the end of July 1944. A white marble plaque is attached to a roughly worked boulder with a gold-colored text engraved on it: “On 28.7.1944, the command post of the Bauska Volunteer Battalion was located here.” Initially, a bronze plaque with an engraving was located in place of the marble plaque, but in the 1990s it was stolen by non-ferrous metal thieves.

At the end of July 1944, as the Soviet troops approached Bauska, there were no significant German forces in the city, which had recently been deep in the rear. The immediate fall of Bauska was prevented by the decisive action of Major Jānis Uļuks, the head of the Bauska district and commander of the guard regiment, who at the end of July formed the Bauska Volunteer Battalion, which consisted of guards of the 13th Bauska Guard Regiment, police officers, as well as volunteers. The battalion took up defensive positions on the banks of the Lielupe River in Jumpravmuiža opposite Ziedoņi islet and on the very first day had to engage in battle with the attacking Red Army. During the battles, a group of Lithuanian police officers who had retreated from Lithuania to Latvia also joined the battalion. Many Lithuanians fell because they fought bravely and without sparing themselves. The first to fall was a Lithuanian police captain, who was buried right there in Jumpravmuiža Park next to the graves of German soldiers from World War I.

The monument to the defenders of Bauska in 1944 was unveiled on September 14, 2012, at the initiative of former Bauska Volunteer Battalion soldier Imants Zeltiņš and with his and the local government's financial support. The red granite stele, which is mounted on a three-tiered concrete base, is engraved with the text: “To the defenders of Bauska against the second Soviet occupation 1944.28.07.-14.09.” and “Latvia must be a Latvian state. Kārlis Ulmanis.” The unveiling of the monument was followed by protests from the Russian and Belarusian Foreign Ministries and local Russian mass media, but in the spring of 2024 the monument was even attacked by vandals. Despite this, a memorial event dedicated to the defenders of Bauska is held at this location every year on September 14 at 2:00 p.m.

At the end of July 1944, as the Soviet troops approached Bauska, there were no significant German forces in the city, which had recently been deep in the rear. The immediate fall of Bauska was prevented by the decisive action of Major Jānis Uļuks, the head of the Bauska district and commander of the guard regiment, who at the end of July formed the Bauska Volunteer Battalion, which consisted of guards of the 13th Bauska Guard Regiment, police officers, as well as volunteers. The battalion took up defensive positions on the banks of the Lielupe River in Jumpravmuiža opposite the Ziedoņi islet and on the first day it had to engage in battle with the attacking Red Army. Initially, the battalion was very poorly armed, and most of its automatic weapons had to be obtained as trophies. A few days later, the 23rd, 319th-F. and 322nd-F. Latvian police battalions also joined the war effort. Until mid-August, the 15th Latvian SS Reserve and Supplement Brigade Battalion, formed from training and medical companies, also participated in the defense of Bauska against the second Soviet occupation. In total, 3,000-4,000 Latvian soldiers participated in the battles for Bauska, who at the end of the battles had to face a tenfold superiority. Soviet troops managed to take Bauska only on September 14, after a month and a half of resistance by Latvian and German soldiers.

The memorial ensemble in the Bauska Castle Garden was opened on the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Latvia – on November 18, 2008. The memorial site was created according to the idea of the Bauska region’s politically repressed club “Rēta”. The two-part grey granite monument was made according to the design of architect Inta Vanaga with the funds of the Bauska city municipality and donors. The text is engraved on it: “To the fighters against the Soviet occupation regime, those arrested, deported and tortured 1940-1990”. Every year on March 25 and June 14, memorial events dedicated to the victims of the deportations of 1941 and 1949 are held at this place

In the garden of the Bauska Holy Spirit Evangelical Lutheran Church, the defenders of Bauska – Latvian soldiers – were buried during the battles of 1944. During the years of the USSR occupation, playgrounds for a kindergarten were set up here. On November 9, 1996, a memorial stone created by sculptor Mārtiņš Zaurs was unveiled in the church garden. The text carved into the roughly worked reddish boulder under the Latvian Legion sleeve patch – a red-white-red representation of the shield – “Long live Latvia to you! To the defenders of Bauska in 1944.” The memorial stone was erected at the initiative of the Latvian National Soldiers’ Association and the Bauska branch of the organization “Daugavas Vanagi”. Financial support was also provided by the Bauska city and district municipalities. Next to the stone is a white-painted wooden cross, under which is attached a red-white-red painted replica of the legionnaires' shield, and even lower is a pink granite plaque with the text: "Here lie the legionnaires, the heroic defenders of Bauska, 1944.28.VII – 1944.14.IX"

House and memorial plaque for victims of Cheka repressions at the building in Bauska at Plūdoņa Street 54, where the Bauska district, later - district Cheka was located during the Soviet occupation after World War II. Here, national partisans and their supporters were imprisoned and interrogated in the basements, and the killed partisans were thrown into the courtyard for identification and intimidation of local residents. The memorial plaque was unveiled after 2000, it depicts stylized barbed wire, prison bars and the text: “The soles of boots clatter, a hundred people groan... Every day is a memory that the heart does not forget. During the Soviet occupation, this building housed the Bauska district department of the repression institution (NKVD, “Cheka”), where people were deprived of their homeland, home, family, freedom and life”. During the occupation, there was a memorial plaque near this house to three fallen representatives of the occupation authorities who had lost their lives in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat a national partisan – Jānis Gudžas.

A memorial plaque to the members of the youth resistance organization at the Bauska city elementary school at Rīgas Street 32, where the Bauska secondary school was located after World War II. The inscription on the plaque, unveiled in 2000, reads: "... And we carried only our hearts high. A group of youth national resistance studied in this school, which dedicated their youth to the fight against the communist occupation power (1948-1950)."

In the autumn of 1948, a national resistance group of patriotic youth was formed in Bauska, which, in the proclamations and slogans posted in the city, called for a fight against the occupiers and the restoration of Latvia's independence, as well as warned of the deportations expected by the communist regime on March 25, 1949. Several young people from Bauska studied in Riga after graduating from high school, but continued to work in this underground organization. Several young people had purchased weapons and explosives and staged an assassination attempt on the chairman of the collective farm in Codes parish. It was planned to attack other officials of the Soviet occupation authorities, as well as blow up the festive stands in Bauska, Baldone and Eleya. This did not happen, because arrests began in mid-1950. 12 young people were arrested in Bauska and Riga, several of them were arrested on the day of high school graduation – June 22. In February 1951, the Baltic War District Tribunal sentenced the organization's leaders Gunārs Zemtautis and Arvīds Klēugas to death, and six high school students and four students to 25 years in forced labor camps.

The memorial site for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans was opened on September 11, 2011. It features a white-painted metal cross, at the foot of which is a granite stele with the names of fourteen national partisans and the text: “For You, Fatherland. Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans. Fallen in the fight against the communist occupation in Ceraukste, Panemune, Īslīce and Pabirži parishes (Lithuania) in 1945–1954. Jānis Gudža, Teodors Auniņš, Pēteris Varens, Žanis Strautiņš, Miķelis Dombrovskis, Vilis Krūmiņš, Olģerts Trans, Laimonis Auniņš, Jānis Ulinskis, Jānis Anilonis, Povilas Glinda, Petras Gibrjūnas, Petras Volosklāvičius, Alberts “Voldmerārs” “Director”. Your graves are unknown.”

The memorial site was established by the Latvian National Partisan Association with the support of the Bauska regional government, and the cross was made by precision mechanic Harijs Frīdemans from Dobele with his own money.

The memorial site for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans was opened on May 25, 2007. It features a white-painted cross, at the foot of which is a granite stele with the names of ten national partisans carved into it and the text: “For You, Fatherland! To the national partisans of Panemuine. Those who fell in the fight against the communist occupation regime from 1944 to 1952. Jānis Dručka, Andrejs Bojasts, Arvīds Melducis, Augusts Juškēvičs, Willi Fischer, Stanislovas Naudžius – “Mykolas”, Juozas Krikščiūnas – “Karlis”, Juozas Balčiūnas – “Klemute”, Augustas Pareizis – “Kazys”, “Juozupas”, Jonas Sirbike – “Janis””. The memorial site was designed by the Latvian National Partisan Association, based on the project of architect Gunārs Blūzma.

The monument is located near the Skaistkalne Catholic Church and the former monastery building of the Capuchin Order of Friars Minor – a place where national partisans and their supporters hid with the support of the monks after World War II. The memorial stele, unveiled in 2011 and consecrated by the Pauline Father Jānis Vīlaks, reads: “Monks of the Capuchin Order – supporters of the national resistance movement Kārlis Gumpenbergs OMC (1904-1980), Miķelis Jermacāns OMC (1911-1986), Kārlis Kiselevskis OMC (1906-1979), Miķelis Kļaviņš OMC (1906-1986), Jānis Pavlovskis OMC (1914-2001). They provided shelter and support to national partisans and illegal immigrants in Riga, Skaistkalne and Viļaka in 1945-1947.”

The consecration of the memorial stone dedicated to the Capuchin Fathers took place on October 8, 2011. The stone was consecrated by the Pauline Father of the Skaistkalne Catholic Church, priest Jānis Vīlaks. The event was attended by the Chairman of the Latvian National Partisan Association Ojārs Stefans, the Head of the Skaistkalne Parish Administration Ineta Skustā and other local residents.

The memorial site for national partisans near the Kurmene parish hall was opened on May 4, 2023, at the site of a monument praising the occupation troops of the USSR, which was dismantled in accordance with the law “On the Prohibition of Exhibiting Objects Glorifying the Soviet and Nazi Regimes and Their Dismantling in the Territory of the Republic of Latvia” adopted by the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia in June 2022. A white-painted wooden cross has been installed at the memorial site, at the foot of which is a black granite stele with the text carved into it: “To the national partisans of Kurmene and surrounding parishes 1944-1953. They will break us, but they will not bend us.”

To the right of the memorial sign, a stand with information about the Kurmene national partisans prepared by Bauska Museum historian Raits Ābelnieks has been installed. The memorial site was established at the initiative of local residents and with the support of the Kurmene parish branch of the Bauska Region Elderly People's Association and the Bauska Region Council.

The gravestone in the Valle cemetery was erected here on July 4, 1941, for the national partisan Edmunds Vigmanis, who was buried here on July 30, 1941, and who fell on June 30 in a clash with Soviet armed formations. The plaque features a ceramic medallion with a photo of E. Vigmanis in a guard uniform and the following inscription: “Vigmanis Edmunds. Born on April 6, 1907. Fell in partisan battles in Valle on June 30, 1941. The countrymen who pass by me are burning with love for the Fatherland. For the beloved Fatherland, I pledge my life.”

After the start of the German-USSR war and the escape of the employees of the Taurkalne parish executive committee, on June 30, local residents gathered at the Taurkalne parish hall in Valle, hoisted the Latvian flag on the flagpole, and formed a 25-man national partisan unit, but only partially armed with rifles and shotguns, led by guard Osvalds Ivanovskis. On the same day, a clash with about twenty Red Army soldiers took place near Jaunbruntālie, during which additional trophy weapons were obtained and five were killed, eight were wounded, and the remaining Red Army soldiers were dispersed. The national partisan, the owner of Jaunbuki, Edmunds Vigmanis, fell in the battle, while O. Ivanovskis and the owner of Bārzdiņi, Jānis Krūmiņš, were wounded.