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Corpses found by the Soviet authorities at the Klooga concentration camp after the Nazi German forces' departure (late 1944). By the end of 1941, virtually all of the 950 to 1,000 Estonian Jews unable to escape Estonia before its its occupation by Nazi Germany (25% of the total prewar Jewish population) were killed in the Holocaust by German units such as Einsatzgruppe A and/or local ...
Estonians fought on both the German and the Soviet side in the war, in all major battles involving Estonia. Other sub-conflicts of World War II with Estonian volunteers: 1939–1940, the Winter War on the Finnish side and against the Soviet Union. 1941–1944, the Continuation War on the Finnish side and against the Soviet Union.
Vaivara was the largest of the 22 concentration and labor camps established in occupied Estonia by the Nazi regime during World War II. Some 20,000 Jewish prisoners passed through its gates, mostly from the Vilna and Kovno Ghettos, but also from Latvia, Poland, Hungary and the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Vaivara was one of the last camps ...
In contrast to many other European countries, Estonia's Jewish population peaked only after World War II, at almost 5,500 people in 1959. It then began a steady decline, with an especially sharp decline in the 1990s after the fall of Communism as many Estonian Jews emigrated to other countries, especially to Israel and the United States.
In June 1940, while the Estonian army was integrated into the Soviet military structure, where in June 1940 there were 16,800 men, it was changed into the "22nd Territorial Rifle Corps". 5,500 Estonian soldiers served in the corps during the first battle. 4,500 of them went over to the German side. In September 1941, when the corps was ...
Wartime collaboration occurred in every country occupied by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, including the Baltic states.The three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were occupied by the Soviet Union in the summer of 1940, and were later occupied by Germany in the summer of 1941 and then incorporated, together with parts of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of ...
The memorial was erected at the initiative of the Jewish Cultural Society and with the support of the Estonian Government. [4] In May 2005, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip visited Klooga and both condemned the Holocaust and expressed sorrow that some Estonian citizens were complicit in war crimes during World War II:
Pages in category "Jewish Estonian history" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... German occupation of Estonia during World War II; O.