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SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS

Name Register Books 1-6 of repressed persons compiled by Memento’s ERRB. Of these 3 books (1, 2 and 5) have already been published. This publication is book nr. 6 of our series. Computer printouts of books yet to be published we use along with the electronic database for data control and editing purposes.

The centre for compilation of Name Register Books of repressed persons by Memento’s ERRB is located in Tallinn in a room belonging to the Tallinn Memento Association. As we can see on the picture, books nr. 1, 2 and 5 of our series are already published, with this current addition of book nr. 6. The third computer printout of the working version of this book can be seen on the picture taken for the museum of repressions. On the left there is the tall stack entitled “General name list from the databases of repressed persons”, which currently contains almost 140,000 personal data entries on 1,300 pages (one act of repression occupies here only a half of one line).

WORK GROUP “ERPRB” OF MEMENTO UNION

(Estonian Repressed Persons Records Bureau)

SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS

Electronic general database of the Estonian repressed persons with 139,289* personal data entries (as of August, 2001, control printout, with 5 to 20 parameters per person) is being constantly supplemented. The general database is used for publication of Name Register Books (NRB).

THE FOLLOWING REGISTER BOOKS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN ESTONIAN AND ENGLISH:

1. Political Arrests in Estonia 1940-1988 (§58). Volume 1. Comp. by Leo Õispuu. - Tallinn, 1996, 878 pages, illustr. (Registers of the 2,0164 arrested). http://okupatsioon.ee
2. Political Arrests in Estonia under Soviet Occupation. Volume 2. Comp. by Leo Õispuu. - Tallinn, 1998, 872 pages, illustr. (Registers of the 15,001 arrested; summary of the statistical overview of Volumes 1 and 2). http://okupatsioon.ee
3. Deportation from Estonia to Russia. Deportation in March 1949. Part 2. Comp. by Leo Õispuu. - Tallinn, 1999, 736 pages, illustr. The total number of the personal files is 29,858 according to the heads of the families in alphabetical order.
4. Deportation from Estonia to Russia. June deportation in 1941 & deportations in 1940–1953. Comp. by Leo Õispuu. - Tallinn, 2001, 896 pages, illustr. The total number of the personal data entries is 13,433.

THE NEXT PLANNED REGISTER BOOKS IN ESTONIAN AND ENGLISH ARE:

1. Political Arrests in Estonia under Soviet Occupation. Volume 3. In the electronic database there are currently approximately 20 thousand data entries for arrested persons.
2. Deportation from Estonia to Russia. Deportation in March 1949. Part 1. Comp. by Leo Õispuu. Prefaces, introductions, leading figures of Memento Association, abbreviations, documents, photos, statistics, registers of the repressed according to the Estonian place names and deportation places in Siberia.
3. Fighters for Freedom. Probably 2 volumes. 59,000 persons mobilised to the army and in addition to them 16,000 forest brothers belong here.
4. The Forcibly Mobilised in Russian Labour Battalions. There are initial data of approximately 40% in manuscript. 32,100+2,500 men were mobilised, 12,840 of them died in labour battalions, ~3% were arrested and 3,210 died on their way to Russia.
5. Refugees to Sweden (7500+?), Germany (14403+7000+?), Finland (500+3350) and other countries, totally near to 100,000 refugees. The data are available. At least 2 volumes.
6. Political Arrests in Estonia under Soviet Occupation. Including shootings without court. Volume 4. Data is partial, but it takes a lot of time and means to reach 10-15 thousand personal data.
7. Repression with Expropriation. Sufficient electronic database exits. The book consists of statistics, basic data of the proprietors in alphabetical order from address and kinds of property registers.
8. Fate the Estonians in Russia. There are more than 1000 personal data in the electronic database.

* The last but one database “Repression with expropriation”, which data processing, have not been included to the general database. All personal data is being continuously supplemented and amended.