Vaivara concentration camp

Vaivara
Concentration camp
Concentration camps in Reichskommissariat Ostland. The concentration camps are marked with a black square.
Vaivara concentration camp is located in Estonia
Vaivara concentration camp
Location of Vaivara within Estonia
LocationVaivara, Estonia
Operated byEstonian auxiliaries of Nazi Germany
CommandantHans Aumeier (until Nov. 1943)
Helmut Schnabel
OperationalAugust 1943 – 5 February 1944
InmatesJews, mostly Lithuanian Jews
Number of inmates20,000
KilledMore than 1,000

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 established. It existed from August 1943 to February 1944.[1]

  1. ^ VAIVARA MAIN CAMP The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume I: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA), 2009, pp. 1491-1510 (20 pages) doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16gzb17.47 accessed 17 October 2023