Kalevi-Liiva
Kalevi-Liivaaresand dunesinJõelähtme ParishinHarju County,Estonia.The site is located near the Baltic coast, north of theJägalavillage and the formerJägala concentration camp.It is best known as the execution site of at least 6,000 Jewish and RomaHolocaustvictims.
Execution site
[edit]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 andpolitical prisonersof mainlyEstonianandRussianorigin.
The mass execution were carried out byEstonianNazi collaboratorsunder German supervision. At least two trainloads of Jews arrived at theRaasikurailway station, one fromTheresienstadton September 5, 1942, and another from Germany in mid-September. The trains carried over 2,000 people, mainlyGermanandCzechoslovakianJews,about 450 of whom wereselectedfor forced labor and interned at theJägala concentration camp,the rest were transferred by bus to Kalevi-Liiva and immediately executed.
The Estonians in charge of the executions,Aleksander Laak,Ain-Ervin MereandRalf Gerrets,were implicated in theHolocaust trials in Soviet Estoniain 1961 and charged with murdering up to 5,000GermanandCzechoslovakianJewsandGypsiesin 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 mainlyEstonianandRussianorigin.[2]
See also
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^Estonian referenceArchived2011-07-22 at theWayback Machine
- ^Anton Weiss-WendtMurder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust2009. p. 238:
External links
[edit]- Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes in Estonia
- Der Holocaust und die Konzentrationslager in Estland
- Zeugenaussagen über die Massenerschießungen
- Kalevi-Liiva
- Kalevi-Liiva
- Milline fashismiohvrite mälestusmärk?
- Kalevi_Liiva, 1992
- Kalevi-Liiva, 2005
- Kalevi-Liiva, 2005
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