Ančupāni Memorial in Memory of the Victims of World War II
Memorialinis vieta

Dedicated to the residents of Rēzekne district killed during the Nazi occupation. In the Ančupāni Hills, starting in August 1941, Jews from Rēzekne and surrounding villages, supporters of the communist occupation regime, Red Army soldiers, etc. were shot. Among the killed were also 203 residents of the village of Audriņi, Makašēni parish, who were killed on January 3, 1942.

The memorial was opened on July 27, 1974. Its author is landscape architect Alfons Kišķis (1910–1994). The evergreen fir trees on the right side of the road symbolize the people lined up for execution, the stone wall on the opposite side of the road symbolizes the shooters. In the lower part – in the Valley of Suffering – a path covered with boulders leads past the mass graves of the shot people, ending at a concrete wall with the inscription “They died so that you could live”. Further on, there are stairs to the Square of Life, the author of the central sculpture “Mother Apple Tree” of which is the sculptor Rasa Kalniņa-Grīnberga (1936).