Višķi

Višķi
Višķi
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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

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

External links

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[1] "Viski".

[2] "Viski,a shtetl in Latvia". usdin.dumes.net.

[hamodia-3] "Harav Eliezer Manoach Paltzinsky, zt"l". Hamodia News, October 11, 2007, p. A18.

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