True crime · 09.07.1941
The prison yard behind Jaani Street, July 1941
Vanglahoov Jaani tänava taga, juuli 1941
On 8 July 1941, as German troops closed in, the Tartu NKVD chief Alfred Pressman proposed that the prisoners still held in the town prison be killed, and the party's county committee agreed. That night and the next day 193 people, 173 men and 20 women, were shot, mostly in the prison sauna and the courtyard beside it. The bodies were hidden in pits and a well in the yard. They were dug up in spring 1942 and buried together at Pauluse cemetery, where a memorial with 150 names was unveiled in 2001. The yard is now the Antonius courtyard.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
8. juulil 1941, kui Saksa väed lähenesid Tartule, tegi kohalik NKVD ülem Alfred Pressman ettepaneku linnavanglas veel kinni peetavad vangid tappa ja kommunistliku partei maakonnakomitee nõustus. Sel ööl ja järgmisel päeval lasti maha 193 inimest, 173 meest ja 20 naist, enamasti vangla saunas ja selle kõrval asunud hoovis. Surnukehad peideti hoovi kaevatud aukudesse ja kaevu. 1942. aasta kevadel kaevati nad välja ja maeti ühishauda Pauluse kalmistule, kus avati 2001. aastal 150 nimega mälestusmärk. Hoov on nüüd Antoniuse õu.
Source: English Wikipedia: NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu; Postimees: 'Avapidu sattus mõrvapäevale' ↗