A book about the Kloge death camp where close to 100,000 Jews perished has been written by Erwin Martinson, an Estonian writer, and published in Soviet Estonia, it was learned here. The author describes how the last survivors of the Vilna and Kovno ghettoes were put to death in Kloge along with tens of thousands of Jews from Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Norway.
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