Commission Members Gary J. Lavine and Lee R. Seeman are leading a Commission initiative in partnership with a British organization, the Holocaust Education Trust, to memorialize the site of 22 Nazi concentration camps and mass graves in Estonia. While some sites have markers, none accurately describe what happened there. With the Soviet occupation of Estonia in the summer of 1940, all Jewish organizations and businesses were closed. In June 1941, several hundred Jews were deported. After the German occupation later that year, all of the remaining Jews who had failed to flee were murdered. The Nazis then transported tens of thousands of Jews from other European countries to Estonian camps.

In addition to raising funds for the project, Lavine and Seeman are working closely with the leaders of the Jewish Community and Estonia to implement it. They are also seeking information from survivors and relatives of those who were murdered in order to ensure that the plaques accurately reflect the history of the Holocaust in Estonia. It is expected that all markers will be in place in time for the 60th anniversary of the mass executions that were carried out at the Lagedi and Klooga camps in September of 1944.