FW: which language?

[Wayles Browne]

Not Slavic at all, but Baltic. It's Latvian, and means "To the
victims of Fascism."

>Can someone help?
>Michael Katz
>mkatz at middlebury.edu
>
>>  ----------
>  > From:         DGoldberg at mla.org
>>  Sent:         Monday, July 30, 2001 11:50 AM
>>  To:   mkatz at middlebury.edu
>>  Subject:      which language?
>>
>>  Hi Michael:
>>  I am trying to discover in which Slavic language the following phrase
>>  (which means, probably: the victims of Fascism) is written, in Latin
>>  characters: FASISMA UPURIEM. The text is from a photograph of stone
>>  monument on which texts in Russian, Yiddish (on the basis of which  I
>>  assume the translation), and the mystery language are found, along with
>>  the
>>  dates 1940-1944 and a hammer and sickle. (On the back,in pencil, "Because
>>  of the Yiddish text the stone was never installed.") I assume the
>>  unidentified language will determine the locale. Do you or might anyone
>>  you
>>  know recognize any convincing clues as to the language is this small body
>>  of evidence?
>>  Any help will be appreciated,
>>  David
>>
>>
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