Višķi (Latgalian:Vyški, Yiddish: ווישקי Vishki) is a village in Višķi Parish, Augšdaugava Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.

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

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

• Satellite map at Maplandia.com
• Wyszki in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland

References

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