Memorial place for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans in the Mežgali school park of Brunava parish
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The memorial site for Latvian and Lithuanian national partisans was opened on May 25, 2007. It features a white-painted cross, at the foot of which is a granite stele with the names of ten national partisans carved into it and the text: “For You, Fatherland! To the national partisans of Panemuine. Those who fell in the fight against the communist occupation regime from 1944 to 1952. Jānis Dručka, Andrejs Bojasts, Arvīds Melducis, Augusts Juškēvičs, Willi Fischer, Stanislovas Naudžius – “Mykolas”, Juozas Krikščiūnas – “Karlis”, Juozas Balčiūnas – “Klemute”, Augustas Pareizis – “Kazys”, “Juozupas”, Jonas Sirbike – “Janis””. The memorial site was designed by the Latvian National Partisan Association, based on the project of architect Gunārs Blūzma.
Panaudoti šaltiniai ir literatūra:
R. Ābelnieks. The Multinational Resistance Movement in Brunava Parish // Bauskas Dzīve, 2005, May 30
R. Ābelnieks. Peculiarities of the National Armed Resistance Movement in Bauska District (1944-1950) // Papers of the Latvian Historians' Commission. Vol. 17: National Resistance to Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Riga: Latvian Institute of History Publishing House, 2006, pp. 88-95.
The Unknown War. The Struggle of Latvian National Partisans Against the Soviet Occupiers 1944-1956. 2nd ed. Riga: Domas spaks, p. 312.
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