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Jägala concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp near the village of Jägala, Estonia. It was established in 1942 and was commanded by Aleksander Laak, an Estonian.

The camp was a processing camp for Jews deported to Estonia from other countries, including Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Poland. About 3,000 arrived Jews not selected for work were shot in the near-by Kalevi-Liiva extermination site.

The camp never held more than 200 prisoners. It was liquidated in the spring of 1943. Most of the inmates were shot.

The estimates for the number of killed at Jägala concentration camp vary. Soviet investigators concluded that 2,000-3,000 were killed in Jägala and Kalevi-Liiva taken together, but the number 5,000 (as determined by the Extraordinary State Commission in 1944) was written into the verdict.

In modern sources, the number 10,000 occurs. Michael Elkins and Jonathan Freedland give the figure of victims as up to 100,000. David Fraser, Hershel Edelheit, and Abraham J. Edelheit have given the figure 125,000; Warren Kinsella places the number at 300,000. However, Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity and estimates of scholars place the number of total Jewish victims in Estonia during 1941-1944 around 8,500. According to Anton Weiss-Wendt, the total number of people murdered by Nazis in Estonia during the occupation was 31,028.

References

1. ^ Conclusions of the Estonian International Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity. Phase II - The German Occupation of Estonia, 1941 - 1944 Cite error: The named reference "historycommission" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
2. ^ Weiss-Wendt, Anton (2009-06-30). Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust). Syracuse University Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-0815632283.
3. Hiio, Toomas. "Ülevaade juutide tapmisest Eesti territooriumil asunud laagrites" (in Estonian). Estonian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 13 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
4. "Juudid pidasid Kalevi-Liiva koonduslaagri komandandi üle omakohut". Eesti Ekspress. 29 July 2008.
5. Kaasik, Peeter (2010-05-28). "Holocaust in Estonia". Estonica. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
6. "Komisjon: 20.000 juudi hukkamine Eestis pole tõendatud". Virumaa Nädalaleht (in Estonian). 2004-09-20. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
7. Elkins, Michael (1981). Forged in fury. Piatkus. p. 13. ISBN 9780861880980.
8. Freedland, Jonathan (26 July 2008). "Revenge". The Guardian.
9. Fraser, David (2005). Law after Auschwitz: towards a jurisprudence of the Holocaust. Carolina Academic Press. p. 258. ISBN 9780890892435.
10. Edelheit, Hershel; Edelheit, Abraham J. (1995). Israel and the Jewish world, 1948-1993: a chronology. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 111. ISBN 9780313292750.
11. Kinsella, Warren (1994). Web of hate: inside Canada's far right network. HarperCollins. p. 180. ISBN 9780002550741.
12. e.g. Wolfgang Benz Handbuch des Antisemitismus: Judenfeindschaft in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Volume 1. 2008. S 111.

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