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Alternate names: Zilupe [Latv], Rosenhof [Ger], Rozinovsk [Yid], Rozenovskoe [Rus], Zilupė [Lith], Rozenovski, Rosenowsk, Rozenovskoje, Ziluppe, Zilupes, Rosenau. 56°23' N, 28°07' E , 70 miles ENE of Daugavpils (Dvinsk), 32 miles ESE of Rēzekne (Rezhitsa), 19 miles SE of Ludza (Liutsin), near the Russian border.Zilupe has a few hundred inhabitants by the Zilupe River. Zilupe's railway station is the final station for the Riga-Zilupe train route, one of the longest passenger rail routes in Latvia. The town dates from 1900, the station taking the name Rozenova, after the former landowner.

Cemetery is on Priezu St and dates from the 1920s. See burial list All Latvia Cemetery List [March 2009] See burial list. [January 2011]

Mass Grave and Memorial. Priezu Street. 1941.

Parent Category: EASTERN EUROPE