Memorial plaque to the victims of repressions of the Soviet occupation regime in Bauska at Plūdoņa Street 54
Memorial site

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The former Cheka building in Bauska. Photo: R. Ābelnieks
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 Plūdoņa iela 54, Bauska, Latvia
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House and memorial plaque for victims of Cheka repressions at the building in Bauska at Plūdoņa Street 54, where the Bauska district, later - district Cheka was located after World War II during the Soviet occupation. Here, national partisans and their supporters were imprisoned and interrogated in the basements, and the killed partisans were thrown into the courtyard for identification and intimidation of local residents. The memorial plaque was unveiled after 2000, it depicts stylized barbed wire, prison bars and the text: “The soles of boots clatter, a hundred people groan... Every day is a memory that the heart does not forget. During the Soviet occupation, this building housed the Bauska district department of the repression institution (NKVD, “Cheka”), where people were deprived of their homeland, home, family, freedom and life”. During the occupation, there was a memorial plaque next to this house to three fallen representatives of the occupation authorities who lost their lives in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat a national partisan – Jānis Gudžas.

Used sources and references:

Pain carved in stone. Association “Latvian Union of the Politically Repressed”. 2006, p. 113.

R. Ābelnieks. The legendary “forest brother” Jānis Gudža // Bauskas Dzīve, 2008, September 29

R. Ābelnieks, A. Urtāns. Bauska – a city where people meet...Bauska: Bauska Museum, 2018, pp. 136, 194.

https://gulags.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/legendary-mezabralis-janis-gudza-2/

The Unknown War. The Struggle of Latvian National Partisans Against the Soviet Occupiers 1944-1956. 2nd ed. Riga: Domas spaks, pp. 317-319.