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Lagedi
Lagedi is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Rae Parish, Harju County, northern Estonia. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 953. Lagedi has a station on the Elron's eastern route. Lagedi was the site of a slave-labor camp during German occupation in World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing .... It was a satellite camp from the Vaivara concentration camp and mass executions of Jews took place in Lagedi. References External linksRae Parish Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia Holocaust locations in Estonia {{Harju-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaivara Concentration Camp
Vaivara was the largest of the 22 concentration and labor camps established in occupied Estonia by the Nazi regime during World War II. It had 20,000 Jewish prisoners pass 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 to be established. It existed from August 1943 to February 1944. Creation On 21 June 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the remaining ghettos in the Baltic states. Subsequently, German occupation authorities met under the auspices of the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Reval (the German name for the Estonian capital Tallinn) in order to plan the establishment of forced labor camps for the oil-shale extraction operations of Baltöl, an IG Farben subsidiary. Beginning in August 1943, a series of concentration camps was established all over Estonia by the Organisation Todt. In September 1943, took over from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |