Murder of Jewish population The Holocaust in Estonia

map titled jewish executions carried out einsatzgruppe stahlecker s report. marked secret reich matter, map shows number of jews shot in ostland, , reads @ bottom: estimated number of jews still on hand 128,000 . estonia marked judenfrei.


german policy towards jews in estonia

the estonian state archives contain death certificates , lists of jews shot dated july, august, , september 1941. example, official death certificate of rubin teitelbaum, born in tapa on january 17, 1907, states laconically in form item 7 printed date left blank: 7. decision of sicherheitspolizei on september 4, 1941, condemned death, decision being carried out same day in tallinn. teitelbaum s crime being jew , constituting threat public order .

on september 11, 1941 article entitled juuditäht seljal – jewish star on appeared in estonian mass-circulation newspaper postimees. stated dr. otto-heinrich drechsler, high commissioner of ostland, had proclaimed ordinances in accordance jewish residents of ostland day onward had wear visible yellow six-pointed star of david @ least 10 cm (4 in). in diameter on left side of chest , back.

on same day regulations issued sicherheitspolizei delivered local police departments proclaiming nuremberg laws in force in ostland, defining jew, , jews , not do. jews prohibited changing place of residence, walking along sidewalk, using means of transportation, going theatres, museums, cinema, or school. professions of lawyer, physician, notary, banker, or real estate agent declared closed jews, occupation of street hawker. regulations declared property , homes of jewish residents confiscated. regulations emphasized work ends begun possible, , lists of jews, addresses, , property completed police september 20, 1941.

these regulations provided establishment of concentration camp near south-eastern estonian city of tartu. later decision provided construction of jewish ghetto near town of harku, never built, small concentration camp being built there instead. estonian state archives contain material pertinent cases of 450 estonian jews. typically arrested either @ home or in street, taken local police station, , charged crime of being jews. either shot outright or sent concentration camp , shot later. estonian woman, e. s. describes arrest of jewish husband follows:

holocaust in reichskommissariat ostland (which included estonia): map

as husband did not go out of house, 1 go town every day see going on. frightened when saw poster @ corner of vabaduse square , harju street calling people show apartments of jews located. on fatal day of september 13, went out again because weather fine remember being worried. rushed home , when got there , heard voices in our apartment had foreboding bad had happened. there 2 men in our apartment selbstschutz said taking husband police station. ran after them , went chief officer , asked permission see husband. chief officer said not give me permission added, in low voice, should come next morning when prisoners taken prison , perhaps see husband in corridor. returned next morning had been advised, , last time saw husband. on september 15 went german sicherheitspolizei on tõnismägi in attempt information husband. told had been shot. asked reason since had not been communist businessman, answer was: aber er war doch ein jude. [but jew.].