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      Smashed skulls and distorted faces, opened and disjointed mouths - everything proves the terrible suffering which these martyrs had to experience during the last of their days and at the hour of their death.

Pēteris Dobe
Staņislavs Belkovskis

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Kārlis Purniņš

MURDERED AND TORTURED IN THE NAME OF «THE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY» OF BOLSHEVISM

Jānis Steps
Alberts Broders
Nikolajs Zokorko

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«No. 6»

NOT MUCH IS LEFT OF A PERSON

It was not possible to discover the identities of many victims.
Arvīds Zemītis
An unknown victim, Nikolajs Dāvis, Jānis Opincāns

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RARELY DIID ANYONE SUCCEED IN ESCAPING THE FATE OF OTHERS

One of them was Silvestrs Brokāns «A passport» of arrested - his cell card.

The text of the death sentence.

      The reason for arrest - the words of Brokāns: «the Germans shot down 400 Bolshevik planes, within two weeks they will be here.»

      Only couple days passed, Riga got liberated, but to Brokāns even on June 26 the death penalty was condemned. Only a miracle saved him.

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