The first\nprisoners were brought to Klooga between September and November of 1943. The\ncamp was originally intended for approximately 2,000 prisoners and throughout\nits operation the number of inmates remained relatively stable at 1,800 to\n2,100. The relocation of prisoners from one camp to another within the Vaivara\ncamp system was constant. In total close to 3,000 Jews may have passed through\nthe Klooga camp. Most of them came from the ghettoes of Vilnius and Kaunas, and\nto a lesser extent from Latvia. More women than men passed through the camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\n
Unlike other\nsub-camps in the Vaivara network, the Klooga camp had brick buildings with separate\nquarters for men and women, and there was running water. The inmates had their\nown hospital with doctors, who were themselves prisoners. This made living\nconditions, especially during the winter months, slightly better than in the\nother camps, where prisoners lived in temporary barracks. Therefore, word\nspread among the other camps, whose inmates worked in the oil shale mines and\nindustry, that Klooga was a relatively \u201cgood\u201d camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\n
On the camp grounds\nwas a sawmill, a concrete factory and a number of various workshops. About 200\nmetres from the workshops stood a separate barracks for POWs, surrounded by\nbarbed wire. The inmates were under the command of the Organisation \u201cTodt\u201d. They\nworked in the sawmill and produced concrete submarine signal mines for the\nnavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\n
For prisoners, the\nday began at 5 am, when they lined up in the square outside the women\u2019s block.\nThe working day began at 6 am and lasted until 6 pm, with a one-hour lunch\nbreak. The Jews were formed into groups of 100. Each group was assigned a\nforeman by the Germans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \t\n
The supply of food\nwas poor. Breakfast consisted of coffee; during the day they were allowed 350g\nof bread and German margarine; for lunch they had one litre of groat soup and\nonce a week they were given 25g sugar or marmalade. \n\nThe 12-hour workday\nwas more than the under-nourished prisoners could bear. In some cases they\nworked alongside wage-earning Estonians, which provided contact with the local\npopulation. Due to this, it is known that on many occasions, according to their\nmeans and despite the difficult wartime conditions, locals tried to help the\nJews with food and by making contact with friends and relatives of the\nprisoners who were in other camps\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first prisoners were brought to Klooga between September and November of 1943. The camp was originally intended for approximately 2,000 prisoners and throughout its operation the number of inmates remained relatively stable at 1,800 to 2,100. The relocation of prisoners from one camp to another within the Vaivara camp system was constant. In total … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/klooga.nazismvictims.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/N31799_1.jpg\")
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