In total, between two and six thousand Jews, Roma and political prisoners were murdered in Kalevi-Liiva. On September 5, 1942 alone, approximately 800 Czechoslovak citizens from the Terezín transport were murdered here by the Nazis and their Estonian collaborators. The rest were transported to the nearby Jägala concentration camp. Fewer than fifty survived the war.

The memorial event was attended by the President of the Estonian Jewish Community Eduard Klass, the Director of the Jewish Museum Gennady Gramberg and Rasmus Lumi, Head of the Finnish Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Representatives of Embassies, the Jewish community and the Estonian state paid tribute to the victims of the massacre by laying wreaths, flowers and stones at the Kalevi-Liiva Memorial.