Memorial to the Forest Brothers in Vastseliina
Memorial site

Foto: Arnold Unt
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 Vastseliina kalmistu, Vastseliina, Võru vald, Estonia, Võrumaa
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Plans for this Forest Brothers memorial were hatched in early 2013, when the Internal Security Service identified the bodies found in a mass grave in Reedopalo near Võru. With the cooperation of Vastseliina municipality, the Võru regional unit of the Estonian Defence League and the Ministry of Defence, the location in the cemetery was decided upon and the necessary preparations were carried out. The reinterment of the 13 Forest Brothers took place on 21 September 2013. A year later, memorial sculptures designed by Mati Karmin were unveiled here, depicting small spruce trees carved out of stone. On 1 November 2015 a further four Forest Brothers whose bodies had been recovered from the secret mass grave in Reedopalo were reinterred here and more memorial spruces were unveiled in remembrance of those fallen in three different battles. Their actual graves remain unknown to this day.

Used sources and references:

Maaleht. https://maaleht.delfi.ee/artikkel/66774875/fotod-ja-video-vastseliina-kalmistule-sangitati-13-metsavenna-sailmed