The museum, one of the world's first to address Soviet and Nazi crimes under one roof, features filmed testimonials and artifacts
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18 August 2003 y., Monday
The museum, one of the world's first to address Soviet and Nazi crimes under one roof, features filmed testimonials and artifacts such as the solid-steel doors that once slammed behind terrified prison inmates.
A replica locomotive stamped with a Nazi swastika and another with a Soviet red star serve as reminders of the human cargo shipped to prison camps during the 20th century occupations -- first by the Soviets in 1940-41, then by the Nazis for three years, then again by the Soviets.
The Soviet regime exiled 35,000 Estonians, including children, in cattle cars to Siberia. During the 1941-44 Nazi rule, 1,000 Estonian Jews perished, and 20,000 Jews sent from other countries were killed in Estonia, most at four main camps set up by the Nazis. Russians returned in 1944 and stayed until the Soviet Union unraveled at the end of 1989.
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