Monument to national partisans B. Mikulas and A. Staris
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The monument to the national partisans Boleslavs Mikulāns (1918 - 1951) and Antons Staris (1909 -1953) of the Ilūkste Partisan Regiment of the Latvian Fatherland Guards (Partisans) Association was unveiled on November 1, 2003, at the “Kuršu” farm in Celminiekis, Dunava parish, at the initiative of Gunārs Blūzma, a researcher of national partisans from Sēlija.
B. Mikulāns from August 1944 was active in various national partisan groups, including the Bebrene company and the Dignāja group in 1949. In 1949/1950. B. Mikulāns, together with A. Stari, hid with Jānis Brakovka in Curonian Spit on the edge of the large forest of Bebrene Celminieki. When B. Mikulāns went to get products on May 9, 1951, he was murdered by Švarojs, an officer of the 2-N unit of the Cheka. A. Stari committed suicide in March 1953 after Curonian Spit was surrounded by Cheka officers.
On a memorial stele made of granite, next to the names of the fallen national partisans B. Mikulāns and A. Staras, the inscription is engraved: "Fallen in the fight against the communist regime."
Used sources and references:
G.Blūzma. National Partisan War in Sēlija // Resistance Movement against the Occupying Powers in Latvia. Riga: SolVita, 1997, pp. 308, 324.
The Unknown War. The Struggle of Latvian National Partisans Against the Soviet Occupiers 1944-1956. 2nd ed. Riga: Domas spaks, 2012, pp. 358-359.
https://latgaleslaiks.lv/lv/2003/11/11/16227
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