Kalevi-Liiva
Kalevi-Liiva are
Holocaust
victims.
Execution site
The Kalevi-Liiva site served as the execution and burial site for trainloads of Central European Jews transported to Estonia for extermination. Other victims include Gypsies and
origin.The mass execution were carried out by
selected for forced labor and interned at the Jägala concentration camp
, the rest were transferred by bus to Kalevi-Liiva and immediately executed.
The Estonians in charge of the executions,
Estimates of the total number of victims vary. The two memorial stones on the site cite 6,000 Jews and 2,000 Roma. Contemporary sources estimate at least 1,700 (probably 1,754) Jews killed at Kalevi-Liiva, other known victims include forty Gypsies and a number of "
See also
- Ain-Ervin Mere
- Collaboration during World War II
- Holocaust trials in Soviet Estonia
- History of the Jews in Estonia
- Judenfrei
- Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
References
- ^ Estonian reference Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Anton Weiss-Wendt Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust 2009. p. 238: