Concentration camps in Estonia

The camps of Estonia's two occupations.

Camps and Holocaust killing sites, mapped

Nazi concentration campSoviet campcamp of both occupationsHolocaust killing sitePoints are approximate (town-level) locations; each links to its article. Use two fingers to move the map, Ctrl + scroll to zoom.

Camp type

30 camps

VaivaraMain camp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
The main camp of Estonia's largest Nazi camp system.
JägalaTransit / killing site · Harjumaa · 1942–1943
An early camp; arrivals were often murdered at Kalevi-Liiva.
KloogaSubcamp · Harjumaa · 1943–1944
A Vaivara subcamp; site of the September 1944 massacre.
EredaSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
KiviõliSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
AseriSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
AuvereSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
Goldfields (Kohtla)Subcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
Hungerburg (Narva-Jõesuu)Subcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
IlinurmeSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
JõhviSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
KukruseSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
KundaSubcamp · Lääne-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
KuremäeSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
LagediSubcamp · Harjumaa · 1943–1944
One of the larger camps of the Vaivara system; site of a mass killing in September 1944.
NarvaSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
PutkiSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
SakaSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
SondaSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
ViivikonnaSubcamp · Ida-Virumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
ÜlenurmeSubcamp · Tartumaa · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
KerstovoSubcamp · Piiriala (Venemaa) · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
KūdupeSubcamp · Piiriala (Läti) · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
PankjavitsaSubcamp · Piiriala · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
PetseriSubcamp · Piiriala (Venemaa) · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
SoskaSubcamp · Piiriala · 1943–1944
A subcamp of the Vaivara concentration-camp system (forced labour).
PatareiPrison · Harjumaa (Tallinn) · 1940–1991
Tallinn Central Prison — an instrument of terror under both occupations.
Kohtla-Järve (nr 289)POW camp · Ida-Virumaa · 1944–1950ndad
One of the largest Soviet POW camps; about 13,000 prisoners in 1947.
Maardu (sõjavangilaager)POW camp · Harjumaa · 1944–1950ndad
POW forced labour on the chemical plant and road building.
Filtratsioonilaager nr 0316Filtration camp · Harjumaa (Põllküla / Paldiski) · 1944–…
A control-and-filtration camp near Paldiski.