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Remains of prisoners at Klooga concentration camp. When the Soviet army began its advance through Nazi-occupied Estonia in September 1944, the SS started to evacuate the camp. Many prisoners were sent west by sea to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig and to Freiburg in Schlesien, present day Świebodzice, then in Germany, now Poland.
Over 4,000 were sent by small boat to Germany, some to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, and some to camps along the Baltic coast. Many drowned along the way. Shortly before the German surrender, some prisoners were transferred to Malmö, Sweden, and released into the care of that neutral country. It has been estimated that over ...
Many prisoners were sent to other camps located in Poland or Germany; others were enrolled as volunteers for the German army. [11] According to former prisoners, prison guards released some inmates before German forces left Tallinn. [5] The Soviet offensive followed and the Red Army captured Tallinn on 22 September 1944. [26]
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 ...
14 June 1941 First mass deportations from Estonia (10 000), Latvia (15 000) and Lithuania (18 000) to sparsely populated areas of Siberia. 15 June 1941, The Governor of New York, Herbert Lehman, declares 15 June to be Baltic States Day. 22 June 1941 Germany enacts Operation Barbarossa, invades Soviet Union.
Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labour under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move ...
The number of prisoners tripled from 21,000 in August 1939 to about 70,000 to 80,000 in early 1942. [35] This expansion was driven by the demand for forced labor and later the invasion of the Soviet Union; new camps were sent up near quarries (Natzweiler and Gross-Rosen) or brickworks (Neuengamme). [34] [36]
“We deeply regret that this happened,” said Walter Kadnar, CEO of Ikea Germany. Ikea pledges €6 million to former prisoners of communist East Germany who were forced to build flat-pack ...