Višķi

Višķi

Višķi

Village in Augšdaugava Municipality, Latvia

For other uses, see Višķi (disambiguation).

Višķi (Latgalian:Vyški, Yiddish: ווישקי Vishki) is a village in Višķi Parish, Augšdaugava Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.

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History

Until the 1930s Višķi was a shtetl, where the majority of the inhabitants were Jewish.[1] During World War II, from 1941 to 1942, hundreds of Jews were murdered in mass executions perpetrated by Einsatzgruppen in the surroundings and in the Daugavpils Ghetto.[2]

People

References

  1. [1]
    "Viski".
  2. [2]
    "Viski,a shtetl in Latvia". usdin.dumes.net.
  3. [3]
    "Harav Eliezer Manoach Paltzinsky, zt"l". Hamodia News, October 11, 2007, p. A18.


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