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The monument to children tortured during the war in the death camp in the Salaspils, Latvia has been restored in Riga, Sputnik news agency reports. The monument locates on the Pokrov cemetery in the Latvian capital.
There were two mass graves here. Children are buried on the one side, on the other - the Red Army soldiers who died in battles for the city. They were united by a common monument but it remained anonymous. Now there were two more monuments. One has the names of soldiers and officers on it, the other has the names of children who died after the Nazis pumped their blood. Then their blood was given to the wounded Germans.
Civil activists restored the names. One of them, Svetlana Vidyakina, found records in the church book made during the war. Monks kept the names of those who were buried in the cemetery. Grace to them the children's names were found.
Local historian Alexander Rzhavin who studies the epoch checked this data in other archives. He also managed to find out some soldiers' names. Unfortunately, not all the names of the eighteen dead Red Army men were found out. Most of them were learnt from the stories of local residents who buried the deadmen. Meanwhile, only three names are confirmed with documents.
Russian diplomats in Latvia granted funds for the monuments production and installation, and for the land improvement.
The monuments were solemnly opened on September 23.
Russkiy Mir
