Višķi

Višķi
Višķi
	Višķi village
	Višķi
	Coordinates: 56°3′12″N 26°46′59″E / 56.05333°N 26.78306°ECoordinates: 56°3′12″N 26°46′59″E / 56.05333°N 26.78306°E
Country	Latvia
Municipality	Augšdaugava
Parish	Višķi
Population (2010)
• Total	251
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

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

External links[]

References[]

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[1] ttp://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/viski/

[2] ttp://usdin.dumes.net/

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