We visited the Klooga Memorial today together with Gennady Gremberg, it´s a former concentration camp set up by the Nazis to deport Jews from all over Europa. It is also the site of the largest civilian massacre during the Second World War, where approximately 2,000 Jews were tragically killed on September 19, 1944.
Only 109 of these 2000 survived the massacre, they went to Israel after the war and were remembered as Fighters of the Ghetto.The site commemorates all victims of the Shoa in Estonia and is located at the exact place where the massacre took place over 80 years ago.
The inscription on the memorial was later changed to explcitely honour Jewsish victims, something that had not been mentioned on the original grave marker during Soviet occupation. During which Jews still had to face exclusion and systematic discrimination.
All survivors of this horrific massacre have since passed away, which makes it even more important to keep their memory alive, keep talking about them and never forget.
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