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Badge "Salaspils". rus |
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Icon "Salaspils": [photo] / photographer A. Melentiev. - Electronic data (1 file: 1.1 MB). - St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2015. - Access mode: the Internet portal of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. The title is based on the analysis of the object. Copying by users is not In the photo: souvenir badge "Salaspils". Icon rectangular in the center of the relief image of the sculpture "Humiliated" from the memorial complex "Salaspils". On the left edge of the inscription vertically: "Salaspils". Copper. Stamping. The size is 22x16 mm. Needle fastening. Without stigma. Location: From a private collection. - Souvenir badge "Salaspils. 1941-1944" is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the concentration camp "Kurtengof", located on the territory occupied by Nazi Germany Latvia in the city of Salaspils, 18 km from Riga. It existed from October 1941 until the end of the summer of 1944. The official name is the Salaspils enlarged police prison and a labor training camp. The most notorious fame of this camp was due to the detention in it of young prisoners who were used to take blood for wounded German soldiers, as a result of which children quickly died. In 1967, the Salaspils memorial complex was established on the site of the camp. At the entrance to the complex is a massive asymmetric concrete wall, with a narrow cutout for the passage. There is an inscription on it in Latvian: "The ground is groaning beyond these gates." This is the gate of life and death. Behind them is a large field on which are located seven figures cast from coarse, pebbly concrete. Each of the figures is an allegory, in which the authors put the image of the martyrs of the camp. Each has its own name: "Unbroken", "Humiliated", "Protest", "Oath", "Rot Front", "Solidarity", "Mother". At the edges, in place of the burnt barracks - stylized concrete blocks. In the barred inserts, people leave flowers, and in place of the children's barracks lie toys brought. The field closes the circular road - the road of death. A metronome sounds
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I. Melentiev, Alexei Mikhailovich (1958-). II. Presidential Library. B. N. Yeltsin (St. Petersburg) .1. Salaspils, concentration camp - Badges. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. Territory (collection). 5. Souvenir badges - the USSR. |
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Source of electronic copy: PB Place of origin: From private collection |
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