What the records say
- When
- 9 Jul 1941
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 193
- Coordinates
- 58.37° N, 26.72° E
- Description
- 1941 incident in a Soviet prison in Tartu, Estonia
NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu
1941 massacre of Estonian prisoners by the Soviet NKVD in Tartu
The NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu was a mass execution of 193 Estonian political prisoners by the NKVD at Tartu Prison on 9 July 1941. The event was part of larger spree of mass killings carried out by Soviet authorities in Estonia and across the Baltic states during the summer of 1941.
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