Kalevi-Liiva

Coordinates: 59°28′49.38″N 25°14′59.44″E / 59.4803833°N 25.2498444°E / 59.4803833; 25.2498444
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Memorial in 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

political prisoners of mainly Estonian and Russian
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,

German and Czechoslovakian Jews and Gypsies in 1942–1943.[1]

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 "

political prisoners" of mainly Estonian and Russian origin.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Estonian reference Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Anton Weiss-Wendt Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust 2009. p. 238:

External links

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