Databases

  • EMMA, the Estonian Memorial & Migration Dataset
    EMMA brings together information on approximately 175,000 people connected to Estonia, including around 70,000 wartime refugees and 90,000 victims of Soviet occupation and repression. Drawing on archival records and published sources, the dataset makes it possible to search for individual names, life stories and fates. EMMA is freely accessible to everyone.
  • Memorial to Estonia’s Victims of Communism 1940-1991 – database. People who have been extrajudicially repressed or groundlessly convicted by the Soviet occupying regime in 1940-1991 and are subject to rehabilitation according to the act of the Republic of Estonia concerning the rehabilitation of persons who have been extrajudicially repressed and groundlessly convicted are entered in this database. Additionally, the database includes: persons who perished directly in the course of communist terror; sufferers who were released from imprisonment or exile; persons who were on the lists to be deported but who were not deported, and persons whose fate is unknown.
  • Kommunismipärand Eestis – digiarhiiv. This digital archive contains material on the communist heritage from the Archives of the Heritage Society of Estonia and materials related to the communist period from the Estonian War Museum, which includes various documents and audio files. In order to simplify the research, a list of all sources and a manual of the materials of the Estonian Heritage Society are available.
  • A database of Estonians in German concentration camps. A database on Estonian residents that were sent to concentration camps in Germany and occupied Poland during World War II between 1941 and 1944. The University of Tartu’s Institute of History and Archaeology and the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory started working on the database in 2007-2008. The work was completed in 2013-2014 by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. The completed database contains information found in the National Archives of Estonia, the Stutthof concentration camp archive, and the International Tracing Service. The research was supported by the Ministry of Education and Research and the National Archives of Estonia in the framework of the Compatriots’ scholarship programme.