On the September 5th, a commemorative event took place at the monument in Kalevi-Liiva on the 81st anniversary of the first transport of Jewish citizens from the then Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany to the extermination camps in Estonia. The transport was supposed to go from Terezín to Riga, but the local concentration camps were already overcrowded, so the transport headed for Estonia.

In the vicinity of Kalevi-Liiva, place 30 km east of Tallinn, three to six thousand people were executed and mass buried between years 1942-1943. At the place of the monument, 800 people transported from Terezín were executed in the surrounding dunes, the remaining people were selected as able-bodied and taken to build the Jägala concentration camp. It was the later destination of other transports. Only 45 citizens from Czechoslovakia lived to see the end of the war, of which several women participated in post-war trials to punish guards and other criminals. Similarly, only a few dozen Polish and German citizens survived. The stories of these people are captured in documentary series Forgotten Transports by Czech director Lukáš Přibil.

Representatives of the Estonian Jewish community, representatives of the Estonian government and diplomatic corps, and representatives of the embassies of the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and the USA took part in the annual commemoration of these events. On behalf of the Czech Republic, Jitka Preclíková, consular and cultural officer, honoured the memory of victims of the Holocaust with a bouquet of flowers.