Mass Graves
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having been led astray by off-topic exchanges, I suggest continuation of this rather interesting topic – convergence of physical, documentary and/or eyewitness evidence on Nazi mass killings in the Soviet Union – on the basis of the following material contributions contained in this thread:
1. The posts of Max/Hans from the Air Photo forum
Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:41 ammax wrote:
http://www.ushmm.org/photos/19/19120.jpg
A Latvian policeman leads a group of Jews to the execution site on the beach near Liepaja.
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A group of Jewish women and children undress prior to their execution by Latvian collaborators on the beach near Liepaja.
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Members of the 21st Latvian Police Battalion assemble a group of Jewish women for execution on a beach near Liepaja.
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A group of Jewish children is led to an execution site on a beach near Liepaja.
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A Latvian policeman leads a group of Jewish women to the execution site on the beach near Liepaja.
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A group of Jewish women stand at the edge of an open mass grave facing the sea, where they await execution by a firing squad of Latvian SD and police.
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A group of naked Jewish women and girls walk to the execution site on the beach near Liepaja. In the background other Jews are being forced to undress by Latvian police.
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Jews are forced to undress prior to their execution by Latvian police on the beach near Liepaja.
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A Latvian policeman walks along the edge of a mass grave towards the bodies Jewish women and children who have just been executed.
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A group of Jewish women who have been brought to a beach near Liepaja, stand at the edge of an open mass grave facing the sea, where they await execution by a firing squad of Latvian SD and police.
Date: Dec 15, 1941
Locale: Liepaja, [Kurzeme] Latvia
Photographer: Carl Strott
Credit: Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Copyright: Public Domain
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A Yugoslav war crimes investigator (Professor Sh. Premer) examines exhumed bodies in the Uskoci Forest.
Date: 1945
Locale: [Croatia] Yugoslavia
Photographer: Unknown
Credit:
Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)
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A Yugoslav war crimes investigator (named Rodic) examines exhumed bodies in the Uskoci Forest.
Date: 1945
Locale: [Croatia] Yugoslavia
Photographer: Unknown
Credit:
Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)
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Dr. Alexander Libo standing beside a mass grave at the Ponary mass extermination site near Vilnius (Vilna). Photographed on February 2, 1958.
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A mass grave at the Ponary mass extermination site near Vilnius (Vilna).
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Corpses exhumed from a mass grave at the Ponary mass extermination site near Vilnius (Vilna).
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The bodies of Jews from the Zolochev (Zloczow) ghetto, in a mass grave. This was located beside the village of Jelichowice, some four km east of Zloczow. Photographed in 1942.
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The bodies of Jews from the Zolochev (Zloczow) ghetto, exhumed from a mass grave after the liberation.
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The bodies of Jews from the Zolochev (Zloczow) ghetto, exhumed from a mass grave after the liberation.
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A man and woman viewing the body of a child from the Zolochev (Zloczow) ghetto, which was exhumed from a mass grave after the liberation.
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People viewing the corpses of Jews in a mass grave that was discovered in Iwje.
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People viewing the corpses of Jews in a mass grave that was discovered in Iwje.
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People viewing the corpses of Jews in a mass grave that was discovered in Iwje.
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Gravediggerers lowering bodies into a mass grave in Lancut.
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A mass grave of Lenin Jewry (in the Polesye region, on the Russo - Polish border). Jewish gravediggers are standing in and on the upper edge of the grave.
Note: The Jewish community of Lenin was killed on the first day of the Hebrew month (Rosh Hodesh) of Elul, in August 1942.
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Jewish gravediggers in a mass grave in the Belzec cemetery. In the grave are some ten bodies wrapped in shrouds.
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People standing by the site of a mass grave of the Jews of Dubno.
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The coffins of thirty - five Jews in a mass grave in Nowe Miasto. This photograph was apparently taken after the war.
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Soldiers of the Red Army beside a mass grave of the Jews of Wysock. The city was liberated in January 1944.
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Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:42 ammax wrote: http://www.gfh.org.il/museum/0000036506 ... _1_Web.jpg
The location of a mass grave in Chepilovo where the Jews of Slonim were murdered and buried. Photographed in 1959.
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The location of a mass grave in Chepilovo where the Jews of Slonim were murdered and buried.
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A Soviet investigating committee excavating a mass grave of the Jews of Kozin. Photographed in 1944.
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A Soviet investigating committee beside a mass grave of the Jews of Kozin, which they excavated. Photographed in 1944.
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Two men and two women beside a mass grave of the Jews of Kurenets.
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A mass grave of the Jews of Svencionis (Svencionys) and the surrounding area. Some eight thousand Jews were killed here between September 27 and October 9, 1941.
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The remains of Jewish victims from Utena (Utian), Lithuania, being exhumed from a mass grave after the liberation.
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A mass grave of Jews in a forest in Lithuania. Photographed in 1941.
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Residents of Lithuania beside the bones of Jews found in a mass grave at Utena (Utian), Lithania. Photographed in 1964.
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A mass grave in which 3,000 Jews were shot in Pajust, near Panevezys in Lithuania. Photographed after the liberation.
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Corpses lying atop a mass grave in Siauliai, Lithuania. 215 Jews were murdered here.
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The bones of Jews uncovered in a mass grave at Utena (Utian), Lithuania.
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A mass grave in a cemetery in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia. 19 Jews were buried there.
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A German soldier shooting a Jew from Vinnitsa, Ukraine, at the edge of a mass grave. German soldiers are watching him from behind. The photograph was found on the body of a German soldier and he had written on the back: "The last Jew in Vinnitsa". Photographed in 1943.
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Two uniformed men beside a vast mass grave containing the bodies of Jews murdered in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.
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German soldiers shooting Jews who are still alive in a mass grave in Vinnitsa, USSR. Photographed in 1943.
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German soldiers among the bodies in the mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.
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Two uniformed men standing beside or on a mass grave in Mineralni Vodi, Caucasus. Three hundred Jews were interred in the grave.
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German Gestapo men shooting Soviet POWs at the edge of a mass grave. German soldiers are watching them from behind. Photographed in September 1943.
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The execution of civilians at the edge of a mass grave in the USSR. Those being killed are standing beside an earthen rampart and below them is a mass grave filled with many bodies.
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Civilians beside a mass grave of Jews in Zhmerinka, Ukraine. Beside them are the remains of some bodies that were exhumed from the grave.
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The exhumation of Jews' bodies from the mass grave in Zhmerinka, Ukraine.
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A German soldier with a pistol, shooting at bodies in a mass grave in the USSR.
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The corpses of Jews in a mass grave that was discovered in Iwje. The Jews were murdered on May 1, 1942 and the exhumation took place on July 15, 1944.
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A mass grave in Drobitski Yar near Kharkov. Fifteen thousand Kharkov Jews were murdered here in March 1942.
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A mass grave in Kragujevac, Serbia, containing bodies of Jewish men. Photographed on May 21, 1941.
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The opening of a mass grave in the city of Bialystok.
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The opening of a mass grave in the city of Bialystok. Photographed in 1946.
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A mass grave containing the bodies of Janowska camp inmates.
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A mass grave on the grounds of the Skarzysko - Kamienna camp.
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Members of the Soviet investigating committee in the Klooga camp beside a mass grave there. Photographed in 1944.
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Victims in a mass grave.
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Corpses in a mass grave.
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Bodies that were removed from temporary mass graves being reburied in a mass grave.
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Bodies of Jews removed from a mass grave in order to be decently buried.
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The funeral and burial of bodies that were removed from a mass grave at a mass extermination site
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Bones and skulls that were exposed in a mass grave.
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Civilians beside an exposed mass grave.
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Rows of bodies, possibly exposed in a mass grave.
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Rows of bodies, possibly exposed in a mass grave.
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A row of corpses in a mass grave, after exhumation.
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A row of bodies that were removed from a mass grave.
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Bodies in a mass grave.
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Bodies in a mass grave.
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Jews in the Ukraine digging a mass grave for themselves.
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The bodies of women killed by the German army, in a mass grave in Kerch.
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Bodies taken from a mass grave in Taganrog, Russia. These were Russian civilians killed by the Germans.
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Jews who returned to the town of Iwje, beside a mass grave discovered there. The grave contained the bodies of 2600 Jews who had been killed there. Photographed on April 20, 1945.
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The area where Jews of the town of Lazdijai were killed and buried in a mass grave. In this place, the Katkiskis estate, Jews from Lazdijai were killed in November 1941. Photographed in 1998.
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Jewish Holocaust survivors beside a mass grave where Jews from Gorodok are buried.
Note: In the summer of 1941, Jews were massacred here by German Einsatzgruppen units
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The Jewish cemetery in Radomsko in 1975. The gravestone in the photo was put on a mass grave of murdered Radomsko Jews. The upright square stones mark the boundaries of the grave.
http://www.holocaust-info.dk/treblinka/ ... _grave.htm
mass grave in Treblinka
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A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Soviet Union. Naked Jews, including a young boy, just before their murder.
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Jewish women from the Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. Some are holding infants as they are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.
[Photo credits: Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes]
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German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution. (1942)
[Photo credits: Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes]
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(shortly thereafter)max wrote:
Document by the local NKVD committee about the discovery of one of three mass grave sites where the citizens of Urechye were buried.
Schematic map drawn to show the site of the same mass grave in Urechye.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/urholo.html
List of the Holocaust victims in Urechye.
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Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:47 ammax wrote:Evidence from the Estonian State Archives of the Former Estonian KGB (State Security Committee) records relating to war crime investigations and trials in Estonia, 1940-1987.
- Forensic examination of a mass grave near Kovno
- Photograph of mass grave near Tartu
- Military procurator's statement on examination of mass grave site in company of accused Kullamaa, May 23, 1956.
- Sketch of execution site near town of Paide.
- Statement on exhumation of remains, May 23, 1956.
- Forensic examination of remains
- Photos of remains
- Baltic Fleet "Smersh" report on mass killings in Birkeneks woods near Riga
- Forensic report on mass killings in the Riga area, December 12, 1944.
- Photos of killings, bodies, mass graves.
Source: http://www.ushmm.org/
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