A mass grave believed to contain the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine.A Jewish community representative said on Tuesday the grave was found by chance last month when workers were digging to lay gas pipelines in the village of Gvozdavka-1, near Odessa, said Roman Shvartsman, a spokesman for the regional Jewish community.
He said that the Nazis established a concentration camp near the village in November 1941 and killed about 5,000 Jews at or near the site.
“Several thousand Jews executed by the Nazis lie there,” Shvartsman told The Associated Press.
Ukraine’s Jewish population was devastated during the Holocaust. Babi Yar, a ravine outside the capital Kiev where the Nazis slaughtered some 34,000 Jews over two days in September 1941, is a powerful symbol of the tragedy.
The good news here is that the story came out at all, because Ukraine is an independent country where Jews are not oppressed. This story might never have been made public in the old Soviet Union.
What atrocities will be dug up sixty-six years from today?
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