The gravestone of the national partisan Bruno Druķas, who fell in 1941, in the Jaunsesava cemetery of Naudīte parish
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Nacionālā partizāna Bruno Druķa kapa piemineklis. Foto: L. Landsberga
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Gravestone for Bruno Druķis, a national partisan from Naudīte parish, who fell in a clash with the armed formations of the Soviet occupation authorities on June 30, 1941. A granite stele with the text: “To the partisan Bruno Druķis. Fell on June 30, 1940. This land is a sacred heritage for our people. And blessed is he who falls for him. Naudīte parish”. The ceramic medallion with the portrait of B. Druķis was smashed and destroyed after World War II.

After the start of the German-USSR war, about ten local guards gathered in the Ružēni forest on June 27, 1941 and formed a national partisan unit with Žanis Gelsons at the head. The next day, the partisans occupied the Naudīte parish executive committee and the local machine and horse rental station, taking possession of the tractors, agricultural equipment and horses there. On June 30, the Naudīte partisan unit tried to intercept a column of Red Army soldiers led by two officers on the road near Meļļi. During the clash, both Soviet officers and retired corporal Bruno Druķis of the Latvian Army Cavalry Regiment fell.

Used sources and references:

National Zemgale, 1941, No. 15, July 16.

E. Pelkaus. Fight and Hope: Partisans in Latvia in the Summer of 1941. Riga: NIMS, 2004, p. 54.

https://karavirukapi.blogspot.com/2021/08/naudites-pagasta-jaunsesavas-kapos-1941.html

https://timenote.info/lv/Bruno-Drukis