Memorial to the Dviete Company of the Ilūkste National Partisan Regiment
Memorial site

The Dviete National Partisan Company was formed in April 1945 under the leadership of former Latvian Army Deputy Officer Otto Sudrabiņš. The company consisted of four platoons, formed by residents of Dviete, Pilskalne, Bebrene and Dunava parishes. On the night of June 16/17, the partisans of the Dviete Company fought a battle with representatives of the Soviet occupation authorities near Jadvigova, freeing two partisan supporters who had been taken prisoner and killing eight local militiamen and destroyers. In June, the Dviete Company was included in the 1st Battalion of the Ilūkste Partisan Regiment, commanded by former Latvian Army Deputy Officer Staņislavs Urbāns, and under the leadership of former legionnaire Jānis Stūriškas. The composition of the company constantly changed, at different times it included about 70 national partisans, including women.

In August 1945, the Ilūkste partisan regiment was included in the 2nd division of the Latvian Fatherland Guards (Partisan) Association. On the night of September 27/28, a 25-man partisan unit formed from the headquarters company of the Ilūkste partisan regiment and the Dviete company cut the lines of communication with Ilūkste and Bebrene, but then occupied the Dviete executive committee and the police station, as well as blocked the house of the destroyer Vuškāns and requisitioned goods from the local store. The Dviete company as a separate unit ceased to exist in early 1946, when, with the loss of hope for help from Western countries, a large part of the Ilūkste regiment partisans legalized themselves, however, some of them continued their resistance to the Soviet occupation power until 1955.

The memorial stone for the Dviete Company of the Ilūkste Partisan Regiment of the Latvian Fatherland Guards (Partisans) Association was unveiled on July 10, 2010. Its design was developed by Gunārs Blūzma, a researcher of national partisans from Sēlija, and the monument was forged by Imants Laizāns, a stonemason from Jersika. The inscription on it reads: “On September 27/28, 1945, national partisans occupied Dviete and temporarily suspended the Soviet occupation. For You, Fatherland.”