Estonia erects monument to Gypsy victims of Nazi executions
SOURCE: RIA Novosti (Moscow) (5-7-07)
TALLINN, Estonia -- A monument to Gypsies murdered in a Nazi death camp near Tallinn during WWII has been unveiled in Estonia, local TV said.
Estonian TV said Sunday it took the country's Gypsy community six years to find a site and collect money for the monument to about 2,000 Gypsies, who were executed in Kalevi-Lijva together with 4,000 of German, Czechoslovak and Polish Jews during WWII.
Estonian TV said Sunday it took the country's Gypsy community six years to find a site and collect money for the monument to about 2,000 Gypsies, who were executed in Kalevi-Lijva together with 4,000 of German, Czechoslovak and Polish Jews during WWII.
Source:
RIA Novosti (Moscow)
Source URL:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070507/65013264.html
Date:
5-7-07
