Concentration Camp Klooga

Klooga was one of the camps in the Vaivara concentration camp complex, established in 1943.

Many inmates died in the camp, but the major slaughter took place after the camp was evacuated because of the advance of the Soviet army.

Many inmates were send by sea to Stutthof concentration camp, but after that, from 19 to 23 September 1944, guards surrounded the camp and began systematically slaughtering the remaining prisoners in a nearby forest.

On 28 September 1944, when Soviet troops reached the Klooga camp, of the 2,400 prisoners only 85 remained. They had managed to survived by hiding inside the camp or escaping into the surrounding forests.

The liberating forces found numerous piles of stacked corpses left unburned by the camp's guards when they fled.

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