The first memorial service for the victims of the Klooga massacre was\nheld on 7 October 1944. The remains of the victims were buried in two mass\ngraves in the vicinity of the pyres. The gravesite was surrounded by a stone wall\nand a tombstone with the epitaph \u201cTo the Everlasting Memory of the Victims of\nFascism\u201d was erected in 1951. The tombstone was fitted with commemorating\nplaques execrating the perpetrators, who were called \u2018fascist murderers\u2019 and\n\u2018enemies of the Soviet people\u2019, while the victims were referred to as \u2018Soviet\ncitizens\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\n
The Klooga monument was one of the first in Soviet Estonia commemorating\nthe victims of fascism. Official memorial meetings were held at the site\nseveral times a year. The Holocaust was mentioned neither there nor elsewhere\nin the Soviet Union. The survivors and relatives of those who had perished in\nthe Klooga camp were neither invited nor welcome to participate in those\nmeetings. A group of former Klooga prisoners from Israel visited the site for\nthe first time in May of 1989. Talk began of the need for a monument to the\nvictims of the Holocaust, since the one erected in 1951 carried a message of Soviet\nideology instead of commemorating the Holocaust victims. In 1994, shortly after\nthe restoration of Estonia\u2019s independence, the plaques on the monument were\nreplaced at the request of the Jewish community in Estonia to restore the truth\nabout the nationality of the victims. The Soviet red star at the top of the\nmonument was removed in 1994 and replaced by the Star of David in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\n
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Klooga mass murder, a monument\nto all Jews murdered in Estonia in 1941\u20131944 was erected about a hundred meters\nfrom the existing tombstone. This was the first memorial in Estonia to\ncommemorate the victims of the Holocaust. A third monument was erected in\nKlooga in 2005 to commemorate all Jews who were killed or died in the Klooga\nconcentration camp. The memorial is located approximately a couple of hundred\nof meters to the south of the prior monument to the victims of the Holocaust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first memorial service for the victims of the Klooga massacre was held on 7 October 1944. The remains of the victims were buried in two mass graves in the vicinity of the pyres. The gravesite was surrounded by a stone wall and a tombstone with the epitaph \u201cTo the Everlasting Memory of the Victims … <\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/klooga.nazismvictims.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/HMK_F_434_Klooga-postkaart-1965.jpg\")
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