The city of Brest, on the Belarusian side of its border with Poland, has kept a terrible secret in its city's historic district for almost 80 years: a mass grave containing more than 1,000 bodies. The prime real estate inside the old city of Brest was once a Jewish ghetto, until the early 1940s,
The city of Brest, on the Belarusian side of its border with Poland, has kept a terrible secret in its city's historic district for almost 80 years: a mass grave containing more than 1,000 bodies.
The 1,214 bodies were uncovered in February by construction workers preparing the ground for a new luxury apartment building. Piles of bones, estimated to be up to 2 meters deep in places, were found in a 40-meter long pit. The mass slaughter may not be unknown, but the magnitude of the killing and mass burial in the heart of the city is surprising.
"The site was horrific, I felt like weeping when I saw so many remains of women and children, a female skeleton cradling a baby," Galetsky was quoted in Belarus press."Victims had bullets in the back of their skulls, small children’s skulls or those of the teenagers." "We firmly believe that the mass murder sites of the Holocaust should not be tampered with, and should remain the final resting places of the victims and places of commemoration, memory, and mourning," wrote Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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