Number of Victims
Soviet-era Estonian era sources estimate the total number of Soviet citizens and foreigners to be murdered in Nazi-occupied Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic to be 125,000. The bulk of this number consists Jews from Central and Western Europe and Soviet prisoners-of-war killed or starved to death in prisoner-of-war camps on Estonian territory.
The Estonian History Commission estimates the total number of victims to be roughly 35,000, consisting of the following groups:
- 1000 Estonian Jews,
- about 10,000 foreign Jews,
- 1000 Estonian Roma.
- 7000 other Estonians.
- 15,000 Soviet POWs.
The number of Estonian Jews killed is less than 1,000; the German Holocaust perpetrators Martin Sandberger and Walter Stahlecker cite the numbers 921 and 963 respectively. In 1994 Evgenia Goorin-Loov calculated the exact number to be 929.
Read more about this topic: The Holocaust In Estonia
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