Aseri
Appearance
Aseri | |
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Aseri community centre | |
Coordinates: 59°27′05″N 26°51′55″E / 59.45139°N 26.86528°E | |
Country | |
County | |
Municipality | Viru-Nigula Parish |
Population | |
• Total | 1,439 |
Aseri is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 1,439, of which the Estonians were 506 (35.2%).[1]
During the German occupation of Estonia (World War II), the occupiers operated a subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp, in which Frenchmen, Spaniards, Dutchmen and Jews were subjected to forced labour.[2]
Notable people
[edit]- Melanie Kukk (1903–2000), artist
- Sulev Oll (born 1964), journalist
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Number and share of Estonians by place of residence (settlement)". Statistics Estonia. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
- ^ Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 1496. ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3.