Višķi
Village in Augšdaugava Municipality, Latvia
Place in Augšdaugava, Latvia
56°3′12″N 26°46′59″E / 56.05333°N 26.78306°E / 56.05333; 26.78306 (2010)
Višķi (Latgalian:Vyški, Yiddish: ווישקי Vishki) is a village in Višķi Parish, Augšdaugava Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.
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
- Eliezer Palchinsky (1912-2007), rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem.[3]
References
External links
- Satellite map at Maplandia.com
- Wyszki in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland
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