Another mass grave unearthed and one more tale of thousands of slaughtered Jews in Ukraine during the Second World War.
The grim find is not the first case of mass burial, in a country often described as an enormous killing field.
The grave was dug by chance last month during digging operations by pipeline workers while laying gas pipelines in the village of Gvozdavka-1, about 180 kilometres northwest of the Black Sea port city of Odessa.
Under the brutal regime of the Nazis, two ghettos near the village were established during the war. Jews were brought from Odessa (today’s Moldova) and kept at concentration camps. Later on nearly 2,40,000 were killed, murdered at a rate of around 500 a day.
During the Nazi regime, Ukraine was an enormous killing field; hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered. There are believed to be some 250 to 350 mass grave sites. The number includes those massacred near their homes and those transported to death camps elsewhere. The Nazis massacred about six million Jews during the Second World War.
Hundreds of mass graves exist in Ukraine, and many have not yet been discovered,
Jewish community members planned to conduct studies to identify victims as a debt to the sufferers and survivors.
The gory tale of Nazi brutality tells the state of affairs of those times.
Via: Theglobeandmail
