Memorial stone to the national partisans of Alsviķi parish in "Čūskubirzī"
Memorial site
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Located in “Čūskubirzs”, Alsviķi parish, Alūksne municipality.
The memorial stone was unveiled on August 21, 2018. Stonemason Ainārs Zelčs.
Here, in the forest massif, the site of a bunker has been preserved, where in June 1947, Antons Circāns, the head of the communications department of the General Staff of the Latvian National Partisan Association, arrived for a meeting with partisan representatives led by Bruno Bukalders, in order to organize and maintain communications between individual national partisan groups. Antons Circāns' goal was not realized, as he died on July 7, 1947, near Drusti.
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In 2015, Dzidra Mazika, the head of the politically repressed club “Sarma” in Alūksne and Ape regions, and the club members updated the research on the activities of the participants of the national resistance movement in Alūksne and Ape regions. As part of this cycle of events, the sites of partisan activity were investigated, photo and video recording was taken, eyewitness memories were recorded, these sites were cleaned up, memorial sites were created and opened. Active participants in the research on the activities of the National Resistance Movement were: Dzidra Mazika, the head of the politically repressed club “Sarma” in Alūksne and Ape regions; historian Astrīda Ievedniece, veterans of the 31st battalion of the National Guard and Chief Juris Ločs, as well as the Alūksne region municipality.
