June deportation

When

22 May 1941 – 20 Jun 1941

Kind

Expulsion or deportation

Coordinates

57.00° N, 25.00° E

Description

mass deportation by the Soviet Union of tens of thousands of people from the occupied Baltic states, occupied Poland, and Moldavia

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1941 deportation of people from Soviet-occupied territories

The June deportation of 1941 was a mass deportation of tens of thousands of people during World War II from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, present-day western Belarus and western Ukraine, and present-day Moldova – territories which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939–1940 – into the interior of the Soviet Union.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikidata: expulsions and deportationsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “June deportation: Soviet officials deport about 65,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Siberia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “НКВД СССР начал массовую депортацию «классово чуждых элементов» и их семей Эстонии, Латвии и Литвы в восточные и северные районы СССР”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page