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.
People Eliezer Palchinsky (1912-2007), rosh yeshiva in Jerusalem."Harav Eliezer Manoach Paltzinsky, zt"l". Hamodia News, October 11, 2007, p. A18.
References
External links Satellite map at Maplandia.com Wyszki in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland