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"This
is
the sign as you enter the town. I only had about two
hours in Kraslava, but I was able to take a few
pictures."
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"Our
guide
told us these old buildings had been Jewish homes before
the Holocaust."
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"I
had two addresses but the streets have been renamed and
numbered so we weren't able to find them. I should have
written to the town hall/ mayor asking what my addresses
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"I
think,
but have no definitive proof, that one house picture
might be the house where my family lived in 1935. The
others, I don't know." |
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"The
red brick building is (was) a synagogue. I found a picture
of what I think is the same building 100 years ago. It was
used as a warehouse and now looks abandoned."
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"The
synagogue, the red brick building, was at the 'end of
the block'."
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"The
sign
marks the spot where the Jews were murdered by the
Nazis. It is right there by the houses."
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"The
cemetery
is very large, has many tombstones. A valuable project
for everyone interested in or researching Jewish people
who lived in Kraslava would be to hire people to
clean up the overgrown vegetation and take pictures of
the stones. There are many hidden by the grass."
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"Our
guide
showed me what could be done to take the mold off of the
stones so they could be read. It was amazing.
There are no vital records for Kraslava so the cemetery
stones our one of the few sources of potential
information."
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"This
monument
is in the cemetery. It reads something about Jewish
people murdered by Nazi's on the River bank. Our guide
wasn't too sure about all of the words. He spoke,
Hebrew, Jewish, Lithuanian and Russian and said that
this was Latvian."
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