Vaivara (Concentration camp)
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Name (Hebrew)
ואיווארה (מחנה ריכוז)
Name (Latin)
Vaivara (Concentration camp)
Coordinates
27.76088611 27.76088611 59.36989167 59.36989167 (gooearth )
Place of residence/headquarters
Estonia
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives web catalog, 2 Oct. 2003:RG-28.010 (Vaivara (Estonia : Concentration camp))
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum web site, 2 Oct. 2003(Vaivara, a forced labor camp in Estonia)
- Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, 1990:p. 295 (Vaivara, in Latvia [sic])
- Verzeichnis der Haftstätten unter dem Reichsführer-SS (1933-1945), 1979:p. 299 (Vaivara, in Estonia)
Wikipedia description:
Vaivara was the centre of a large concentration camp-complex consisting of 22 concentration and labor camps established in occupied Estonia by the Nazi regime during World War II. Vaivara lies 30 km west of Narva close to the Russian border. Some 20,000 Jewish prisoners passed through its gates. Around 9,000 Jews were transported there from the Vilna and from the Kaunas and Kovno Ghettos. Various groups of Jewish prisoners were 'transported' to Vaivara and its surrounding workcamps from Latvia, Poland and Hungary. German and Czech Jews from the Theresienstadt concentration camp also arrived there. Vaivara was one of the last concentration camps established. It existed from August 1943 to February 1944.
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