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| NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu | |
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| Part of the NKVD prisoner massacres and the first Soviet occupation of the Baltic states | |
 Corpses of the massacre's victims | |
| Location |  Tartu, Estonia |
| Date | July 9, 1941 (EET) |
| Target | Estonian prisoners |
Attack type | Massacre, war crime |
| Deaths | 193 |
| Perpetrators |  NKVD |
On July 9, 1941, 193 detainees were shot in Tartu prison and the Gray House courtyard[1][2] by the Soviet NKVD; their bodies were dumped in makeshift graves and in the prison well.[3]
- ^ Alexander Statiev (2010). The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0521768337. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ^ M. Laar (1992). War in the Woods: Estonia's Struggle for Survival, 1944-1956. Howells House. ISBN 0929590082. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ^ Museum of KGB Cells