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"Sheina
Gram - Fragments of a Diary" - an exhibition about a Jewish girl
from Latvia
Written
during the Nazi Occupation in the town of Preili, Latvia from June 22
to August 8, 1941.
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first day passed quietly (without incident). On the second
day the Germans broke into shops and looted all. |
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They broke into
the synagogue, pulled out the Torah scrolls and trampled them underfoot.
On other streets they organised all sorts of Jew-baiting and massacres...
We all felt great fear. |
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The
Preili Agricultural School in the
Manor House of Count Borch circa 1930. |
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The
market square in the city of Preili in 1926. Near it, in the
house No. 4, lived the Gram family. Marktplatz in Preili, 1926. |
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Saturday
July 19, 1941.
An
order has been
issued that Jews have
to wear a yellow sign
to distinguish them.
It's a five-point star,
12 cm. in width and
length. |
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Men
have to wear it on their back,
their chest and a bit above their
knee on the left leg. Women, on
their chest and their back. Many
have been arrested and imprisoned.
Tuesday.
29.07.1041.
"I see the faces of shot people
in front of me." |
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Sodoru
Street, Preili, 1930. |
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Sunday
- July 27, 1941.
This has been bloody Sunday for the Jewish nation.
Morning. Every Jew on Daugavpils Street was ordered to put on their
best clothes, to take along food and leave their homes. The houses
were searched. At twelve o'clock all the Jews were herded into the
Synagogue. A group of young Jewish men were sent to dig graves behind
the graveyard. Then Jews from two other streets were herded into
the synagogue.
Four
thirty in the afternoon. All the Jews were herded
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the graveyard and shot. It
was horrendous. We
never
expected
to end this way. The handful of us who remain, expect to die any
moment.
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The
Silbermann Flax Purchasing Centre, where
Sheina's brother Gutman worked in the 1930s. |
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The
girls' ballet group of the Preili Primary School, 1937. Nearly
all the Jewish members of the group were murdered in 1941. |
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The
Jewish Primary School of Preili
where Sheina was a student in 1936. |
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Monday
- July 28, 1941.
Day of horror. We find out about the sad, tragic end. During the day the
few that remain of the Jewish community register for peat work. |
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