Ants Kaljurand

Kaljurand grew up in the village of Teesu near Pidula Bay on the island of Saaremaa. In 1935, he travelled to Koonga Parish (now Lääneranna Parish) in Pärnu County and found work as a farm laborer. In 1938, he enlisted in the Estonian Defence Forces.[1] He joined the Forest Brothers and in the summer of 1941 attacked Soviet forces in Lääne and Pärnu Counties. During the occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany, he served in the Estonian Self-Defense Protection Association Omakaitse and was involved on the front from 1942 to 1944.[1] After the retreat of the Germans in 1944, he remained a prisoner of war on Saaremaa, but escaped from the prison camp in December of the same year and continued his activities in the Forest Brothers.

During Estonia's Soviet era, Kaljurand served as the local leader of the Armed Combat Union ("Relvastatud Võitluse Liit"), founded under the leadership of Endel Redlich, in Soontaga. It was not until midsummer 1949 that the NKVD arrested him.[2] Kaljurand was executed on March 13, 1951, in Tallinn, along with Arved Pild and Juhan Metsäär.[3]

• Forest Brothers
• Omakaitse

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