Memorial site for the shot patients at the Aglona Catholic Gymnasium Psychiatric Hospital
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Memorial site near the Aglona Catholic Gymnasium, where on August 22, 1941, the Nazis shot 544 patients from the Daugavpils Psychiatric Hospital, as well as 48 children from the Grīva Orphanage. All of them were transferred from Daugavpils to Aglona, where they were placed in the premises of the Catholic Gymnasium until their murder. The shot were buried in two pits.
This murder, as well as the killing of Jews in the area, was publicly condemned in his sermons by the dean of Aglona, priest Alois Brock (1898–1943). For this reason, he was arrested by the Nazi authorities on December 30, 1941. Three months later, A. Brock was released, but was arrested again on May 25, 1942. A. Brock died on April 28, 1944, in a concentration camp in Neuengamme (Germany) or Mauthausen (Austria).
The memorial site features a few gravestones and a crucifix with a memorial plaque in Latvian and Russian.
Panaudoti šaltiniai ir literatūra:
Vīksne, Rudīte (2007). The extermination of the mentally ill in Latvia during the Nazi occupation. Holocaust research issues in Latvia (Articles of the Latvian Historians' Commission, 8), Compiled by Dzintars Ērglis. Riga: Latvian History Institute Publishing House, pp. 324–347.
Alois Brock's Memorial Day: one of the versions. Available: https://latgalesdati.du.lv/notikums/7540
