Jewish cemetery Meža iela (Līvāni)

Quite centrally located in downtown Livani is the Jewish cemetery. Part of the area was uncovered and built on by a local citizen. A residential building now stands there. The cemetery is used by teenagers and young adults again and again as a barbecue area and place to party, so it is regularly vandalized (gravestones are knocked over and used as places to sit or barbecue).

Although the association LOT e.V. with a group of volunteers tried to renovate the cemetery there in 2007, the condition is poor to this day, the municipality does not care about green maintenance or preservation of the gravesites.

Livani was founded in the 16th century by the Baltic-German Lieven, who settled there. After Livani was recognized as a city in 1926, the Jewish population of the city accounted for almost 30%. As early as 1921, a Jewish elementary school was founded, where classes were taught first in Yiddish and later in Hebrew.

Between July 26 and September 4, 1941, under the Nazis, most of the city's Jews were shot. Meyer Meler, in his book "Jewish Latvia: Sites to remember," speaks of eight massacres in which groups of Jewish people were shot.