Remembered by people who were there · 1941
Endel Lukas remembers the summer war of 1941 in Kirbla
Endel Lukas, born in 1923, grew up on a farm in Kirbla in Läänemaa, where his father Jüri also ran a dairy. In July 1941 Red Army units and destruction battalions took Kirbla. His father and four other unarmed farmers, who had cycled from Vanamõisa towards Kasari to see what was happening, were captured and shot; only Endel, then seventeen, managed to escape. More than thirty farms in Kirbla and Kasari were burned, and in August his mother Alma was shot as well. He remembers hiding in the forest and what became of the farm and the dairy.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Endel Lukas (sünd 1923) kasvas üles Läänemaal Kirblas talus, kus isa Jüri pidas ka piimatööstust. 1941. aasta juulis vallutasid Kirbla Punaarmee ja hävituspataljonid. Isa ja neli teist relvastamata talumeest, kes olid jalgratastel Vanamõisast Kasarile olukorda vaatama sõitnud, võeti kinni ja lasti maha; põgeneda õnnestus ainult 17-aastasel Endelil. Kirblas ja Kasaris põletati üle kolmekümne talu ning augustis lasti maha ka ema Alma. Endel Lukas meenutab metsas varjamist ja seda, mis sai talust ja piimatööstusest.
Source: ERR Arhiiv RMARH-166769 ↗