Memorial plaque to the Veclaicene national partisans at the site of the bunker
Memorial site
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Located in Veclaicene parish, Alūksne region.
Opened on October 4, 2019. Stonemason Ainārs Zelčs.
On March 13, 1953, in the Veclaicene forests near the "Koruļi" houses, the Chekists discovered a carefully camouflaged bunker and arrested Bernhards Ābelkoks and Elmārs Tortūz.
Weapons were found in the bunker: 2 German rifles and 95 cartridges, 2 “Parabellum” pistols and 152 cartridges.
On November 11, 1949, Cheka agents shot K. Dokti-Dokteniekus, and his group disintegrated. After the attack, B. Ābelkoks and E. Tortūzis hid for some time in a bunker near the “Maskaļi” houses, but from the spring of 1951, with the support of Ilona Ābolkalna, they set up a bunker in “Koruļi”, where they lived until their arrest.
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In 2015, the head of the politically repressed club “Sarma” in Alūksne and Ape regions, Dzidra Mazika, 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, 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.
