Memorial plaque to Veclaicene national partisans instead of a bunker
Memorial site
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Located in Veclaicene parish, Alūksne region.
Opened on October 4, 2019. Akmeņkalis Ainārs Zelčs.
On March 13, 1953, in the forests of Veclaicene, not far from the Koruļi house, the Chekists opened a carefully disguised bunker and arrested Bernhard Ābelkok and Elmārs Tortūze.
Weapons were found in the bunker: 2 German rifles and 95 rounds, 2 Parabellum pistols and 152 rounds.
On November 11, 1949, Czech agents K. Dokti-Doktenieki were shot and his group broke up. After the attack, B. Ābelkoks and E. Tortūzis hid for some time in a bunker near the Maskaļi house, but from the spring of 1951, with the support of Ilona Ābolkalns, they built a bunker in Koruļi, where they lived until their arrest.
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In 2015, Dzidra Mazika, the head of the club “Sarma”, politically repressed in Alūksne and Ape counties, and the members of the club updated the research of the activities of the members of the national resistance movement in Alūksne and Ape counties. During the cycle of this event, partisan locations were explored, photos and videos were recorded, eyewitness records were recorded, and these sites were cleaned up and commemorated. Active participants in the identification of the activities of the National Resistance Movement were: Dzidra Mazika, the leader of the club “Sarma” of the politically repressed Alūksne and Ape region; historian Astrīda Ievedniece, veterans of the 31st National Guard Battalion and chief Juris Ločs, as well as Alūksne municipality.
