Why the Holocaust Does Not Matter to Estonians
2008; Routledge; Volume: 39; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/01629770802461530
ISSN1751-7877
Autores Tópico(s)Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: EstoniaJewish minorityanti-Semitismwar crimes investigationHolocaust denialfreedom of expression Notes Notes 1. The facts are derived from my forthcoming book, Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (Syracuse University Press). 2. Eight Jews were deported to Estonia from Finland in November 1942, but none of these held Finnish citizenship. Upon arrival, all of them were executed. 3. Männil was one of several deserters from the Red Army hidden by a Jewish woman, Miriam Lepp, in the summer of 1941. She was executed on 13 July 1942. One can only speculate whether Männil as a policeman was aware of her arrest and whether he did anything to save her from death. 4. See, for example: Lepassalu (1998 Lepassalu, V. 9, May 1998. 'Kas eestlased olid massimõrvarid?' Luup 9, May, 1–2. [Google Scholar], pp. 1–2); Kaldre (1998 Kaldre, P. June 1998. 'Wiesenthali vendeta' Luup, 12 June, 1–7. [Google Scholar], pp. 1–7); Jõgeda (2000 Jõgeda, T. May 2000. 'Kuidas Tartu koonduslaagri ülemast Karl Linnasest nõukogude sõjatrofee tehti' Kes/Kus May, [Google Scholar]). Laar wrote that Tallinn Police Prefect Evald Mikson was not guilty (Miksonil ei ole süüd). In December 1941 the German Security Police arrested Mikson on charges of torturing prisoners and misappropriating their valuables. He was not released until two years later. The Estonian State Archives in Tallinn contain several documents from August and September 1941 with Mikson's signature authorizing the execution of individual Jews. 5. Weiss-Wendt (1997 Weiss-Wendt, A. 1997. Eestlased, lätlased ja Holocaust. Kleio, 19(1): 53–5. [Google Scholar], pp. 53–5); Levin (1997 Levin, D. 1997. "'Book Review The Holocaust of the Estonian Jews, 1941'". In The Fate of the European Jews, 1939–45: Continuity or Contingency?, Edited by: Frankel, J. 297–300. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press. 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Eva-Clarita Onken, who evaluated the volume as part of a recent review article in Journal of Baltic Studies, is also pessimistic about its ability to encourage debate and critical reflection (Onken 2007 Onken, E-C. 2007. 'The Politics of Finding Historical Truth: Reviewing Baltic History Commissions and their Work'. Journal of Baltic Studies, 38, 1: 112 March [Google Scholar], p. 112). 9. See Kaplinski's exposé, for example, in Vikerkaar (2001, pp. 214–19). 10. There were 19 such camps in Estonia (going from east to west): Narva, Narva-Jõesuu, Auvere, Putke, Vaivara, Viivikonna, Soska, Kuremäe, Jõhvi, Ereda, Kohtla, Saka, Kiviõli, Sonda, Aseri, Kunda, Jägala, Lagedi and Klooga. Jägala and Lagedi were not, strictly speaking, 'labor camps'. Larger camps such as Viivikonna, Kiviõli and Ereda were effectively subdivided into two sections; hence the disparity in numbers of Jewish slave labor camps in Estonia as they appear in various accounts. In addition, the Germans operated five smaller camps in northwestern Russia, southern Estonia and northern Latvia, which were in existence for only a brief period. 11. Starting from the late 1980s Lipkin, who is not affiliated with the Jewish community, began mapping the former sites of Jewish slave labor camps at Viivikonna and Vaivara and interviewing farmers who had lived in the vicinity of the camps. The material thus collected has been published in a local newspaper and is available at a local museum. 12. Between 29 July and 18 September 1944, Lagedi was the site of a makeshift Jewish camp. The camp was located across from the train station and housed 2,050 Jewish prisoners from Ereda who were awaiting a further deportation to Stutthof concentration camp. On 18 September an estimated 426 Jews who had been previously transferred to Lagedi from Klooga were executed in a nearby forest. 13. Põhjarannik, 18 September 2004; Postimees, 10 September 2004. 14. The Round Table meeting on minority issues by the Estonian President (2002) minutes, 10 June, available at: http://vp2001-2006.vpk.ee/et/institutsioonid/ymarlaud.php?gid=24080, accessed 5 July 2007. This does not imply that ethnic Russians on the whole are less prone to anti-Semitism than Estonians. In March 2004, two individuals were detained in Sillamäe – a city with a predominantly Russian-speaking population – for painting anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas on the walls of a building. 15. Põhjarannik, 18 September 2004. Schnabel had been part of the Nazi camp administration since 1934, first at Sulza in Thuringia and then at Buchenwald. Many Holocaust survivors have identified Schnabel as the individual who had carried out selections at Vaivara. He was implicated in homicide at Viivikonna and Narva camps and oversaw the liquidation of Ereda camp. 16. http://si.kongress.ee/?a=page&page=43e129325acc205ba5ece&subpage=42f293855c1750876fbc, accessed 2 August 2007. 17. See organization website at: http://si.kongress.ee/. According to the website, the organization was founded in response to the parliament's decision to drop the territorial claims to Russia (based on the Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920). The unilateral decision of the Estonian President to seek membership in the EU was cited as another unlawful act that warranted intervention. 18. Lina (2003 Lina, J. 2003. Skorpioni märgi all: Nõukogude võimu tõus ja langus, Stockholm: Referent. [Google Scholar]); Madisson (2004 Madisson, T. 2004. Maailma uus kord: Judaiistide ja vabamüürlaste varjatud tegevus rahvaste ning riikide allutamisel, Lihula: Ohvrikivi. [Google Scholar], 2006 Madisson, T. 2006. Holokaust: XX sajandi masendavaim sionistlik vale, Lihula: Ohvrikivi. [Google Scholar]). See also Lina's article in Eesti Aeg, 8 April 1992. In his first book Madisson blamed the Jews for masterminding both World Wars and the Bolshevik Revolution, financing Hitler, and planning a conspiracy to rule the world. 19. See, for example, Piirisild (2006 Piirisild., J. 19 April 2006. 'Tiit Madisson juutide vandenõust' Pärnu Postimees, 19 April, [Google Scholar]) and A. Savitsch's review on the website of the Independent Information Center, 1 August 2007, available at: http://si.kongress.ee/?a=page&page=42e12d241a164247355b6&subpage=45016c51ddfee722755eb, accessed 1 August 2007. 20. 'Statement by the President of the Estonian Jewish Community Mrs. Cilja Laud', delivered on her behalf at the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism in Cordoba on 8 June 2005, available at: http://www.osce.org/documents/cio/2005/06/15052_en.pdf+Statement+by+the+President+of+the+Estonian+Jewish+Community+Mrs.+Cilja+Land%E2%80%90,&hl=no&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ee, accessed 30 July 2007.
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