Memorial to the victims of holocaust in Liepāja
Memorialinis vieta

Foto: Kārlis Volkovskis
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 Lībiešu iela, Šķēdes kāpas, Latvija
 +371 63 480 808, +371 29 402 111
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The largest memorial to Holocaust victims in Latvia is located in Liepāja, in the Šķēde dunes. The memorial is dedicated to the memory of more than 3,000 Liepāja Jews killed during World War II. It is in the form of the Israeli national symbol, a seven-branched candelabra known as the menorah. The contours of the memorial, which are clearly visible from a bird’s eye view, are made of split boulders and granite blocks. The ‘lights’ of the menorah are made of granite pillars with inscriptions of verses from the Lamentations of Jeremiah in Hebrew, English, Latvian and Russian.

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