Audriņi

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Audriņi (Latvia)
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Basic data
State : LatviaLatvia Latvia
Landscape: Latgale ( Latvian : Latgale )
Administrative district : Rēzeknes novads
Coordinates : 56 ° 35 '  N , 27 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 35 '0 "  N , 27 ° 15' 0"  E
Residents : 503 (Jan. 7, 2004)
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Website: www.audrini.lv
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Audriņi is a village in the region Latgale in Latvia , northwest of Rezekne area. It is the capital of the municipality of the same name, which has a total of 1233 inhabitants (as of July 1, 2010).

nature

The area is rural with a lot of forest and several lakes. The highest point at 179.3 meters is at Hvorobina.

Audrini massacre

Memorial to the victims of the massacre

On January 2, 1942, the place was razed to the ground by German Einsatzgruppe A and the 235 old-believing residents of the place except for 30 men shot in a nearby forest. The 30 men were shot in public on January 4, 1942 in Rēzekne ( Rositten ).

The reason for this “expiatory measure” was the accusation that the residents had supported dispersed members of the Red Army and had given them weapons. Thereupon the commander of the Latvian security police, SS-Obersturmbannführer Strauch , ordered the destruction of the place and the murder of the inhabitants as a deterrent.

A copy of the notice of the massacre signed by Strauch is in the State Archives of the Russian Federation Fond 7021, List 93, File 3792, Sheet 2/3.

At around the same time, German security forces carried out another massacre of 47 villagers in Barsuki . A memorial with the names of the victims has existed since 1972.

literature

  • Peteris Krupnikov: Latvia and the Latvians in the Mirror of German and Baltic German Journalism, 1895–1950. von Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1989, ISBN 3-7777-0055-X , p. 312f.
  • Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .
  • Valdis O. Lumans: Latvia in World War II. Fordham University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-8232-2627-6 , pp. 169f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Björn M. Felder: Latvia in World War II: Between Soviet and German occupiers 1940-1946. 2009 Schöningh ISBN 978-350-6765-444 , p. 324.
  2. ↑ Valdis O. Lumans: Latvia in World War II. Fordham University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-8232-2627-6 , p.169.