Memorial to the bunker of the national partisan group "Jumba"
Memorial site

Nacionālo partizānu grupas “Jumba” bunkura piemiņas vieta. Avots: Jānis Sijāts, Vidzemes tūrisma asociācija
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 Ziemera pagastā Valsts mežu 66. Kvartālā, Alūksnes nov., Latvija
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Located in Ziemera Parish, State Forest Quarter 66.

The memorial site was unveiled on July 10, 2020.
In the second stage of the Latvian national partisan movement, in the middle of 1948, a group of 4 people - Viks Pētersi, Stebers Rolands, Bukāns Ilgmārs and Kangsepa Elvīra separated from J. Bitāna-Liepačs unit in Mālupe-Beja parishes and . The location of the partisans was near the Estonian border, near the Riga-Pskov highway, on a hill in a thoroughly built bunker.
On March 2, 1950, when the Chekists opened the bunker, the partisans hid in a barn made of boulders on the Estonian side of Napke's house. After a long and intense shooting on March 3, 1950, the Chekists managed to set fire to the barn. Ilgmārs Bukāns, Rolands Stebers and Elvira Kangsepa burned down together with their newborn daughter. Peter Wick jumped out of the barn window and hid in the attic of the house, where he was also found and shot. The farm was burned. The bodies of all the fallen partisans were taken to Alūksne. A memorial was erected at the site of the fighters' deaths in the early 1990s. Elvira Kangsep's daughter, born in a burning barn, was given the name Liesma.

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In 2015, Dzidra Mazika, the head of the club “Sarma”, politically repressed in Alūksne and Ape counties, and the members of the club updated the research of the activities of the members of the national resistance movement in Alūksne and Ape counties. During the cycle of this event, partisan locations were explored, photos and videos were recorded, eyewitness records were recorded, and these sites were cleaned up and commemorated. Active participants in the identification of the activities of the National Resistance Movement were: Dzidra Mazika, the leader of the club “Sarma” of the politically repressed Alūksne and Ape region; historian Astrīda Ievedniece, veterans and commander of the 31st National Guard Battalion Juris Ločs, as well as Alūksne municipality.

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