Višķi
Sign in to saveVišķi (Latgalian:Vyški, , ) is a village in Višķi Parish, Augšdaugava Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.
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Vinony's link graph records 11 inbound references to Višķi, and connects out to Latvia, Jerusalem and Polish.
The entry is geolocated on the map in LV, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Historic Jewish communities in Latvia, Holocaust locations in Latvia and Jewish Latvian history.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Višķi
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Latvia
- Settlement.mapsize
- 200px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Latvia
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Augšdaugava
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Parish
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Višķi
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Višķi Parish, Latvia - panoramio (2).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Višķi village
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 251
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Višķi, Viški
- Country
- Latvia
- Population
- 178
- Elevation
- 105
- Image
- Višķu baznīca 2001-08-11.jpg
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- postal code
- 5481
- native label
- Višķi, Viški
- P6482
- Višķi
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P8168
- Ferenc Münnich
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- People
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Višķi (Latgalian:Vyški, , ) 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. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Višķi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations