Memorial place for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans in Plūdonis cemetery of Ceraukstes parish
Memorial site
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The memorial site for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans was opened on September 11, 2011. It features a white-painted metal cross, at the foot of which is a granite stele with the names of fourteen national partisans and the text: “For You, Fatherland. Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans. Fallen in the fight against the communist occupation in Ceraukste, Panemune, Īslīce and Pabirži parishes (Lithuania) in 1945–1954. Jānis Gudža, Teodors Auniņš, Pēteris Varens, Žanis Strautiņš, Miķelis Dombrovskis, Vilis Krūmiņš, Olģerts Trans, Laimonis Auniņš, Jānis Ulinskis, Jānis Anilonis, Povilas Glinda, Petras Gibrjūnas, Petras Volosklāvičius, Alberts “Voldmerārs” “Director”. Your graves are unknown.”
The memorial site was established by the Latvian National Partisan Association with the support of the Bauska regional government, and the cross was made by precision mechanic Harijs Frīdemans from Dobele with his own money.
Used sources and references:
R. Ābelnieks, A. Urtāns. The National Resistance Movement and the Counteraction of the Repressive Institutions of the Soviet Occupation in the Bauska District/District (1944 – Mid-1950s) // Papers of the Latvian Historians' Commission. Vol. 19: Occupied Latvia 1940-1990. Riga: Latvian History Institute Publishing House, 2007, pp. 356-407.
The Unknown War. The Struggle of Latvian National Partisans Against the Soviet Occupiers 1944-1956. 2nd ed. Riga: Domas spaks, pp. 314-315.
V. Auzāns. A memorial site for national partisans has been established // Bauskas Dzīve, 2011, September 16. https://arhivs.bauskasdzive.lv/raksts/6498
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