Gvozdavka-1 Mass grave found in the Ukraine.

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Gvozdavka-1 Mass grave found in the Ukraine.

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Post by DXTR » 05 Jun 2007, 19:00


Mass grave from WWII found in Ukraine
Remains of thousands of Jews killed by Nazis found near concentration camp site

KIEV, Ukraine // A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp, a Jewish community representative said today.

The grave was found by chance last month when workers were laying gas pipelines in the village of Gvozdavka-1, near Odessa, said Roman Shvartsman, a spokesman for the regional Jewish community. He said that Nazis established a concentration camp near the village in November 1941 killed about 5,000 Jews at or near the site.

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"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.

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said he did not recall Gvozdavka-1 specifically, but was not shocked by the findings.

"I'm not surprised that even in these days there are discoveries such as these, it underscores the enormous scope of the plans of annihilation of the Nazis and their collaborators in eastern Europe," he said. "This is an area that Jews were not deported from to concentration camps but rather murdered on the spot."

"The scope is enormous, the number of places where murders were carried out is very large and that is why even now at this point, so late after the events, graves are still being discovered," he added.

"Ukraine was an enormous killing field, hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered and the entire region is literally filled with hundreds of mass graves all over, a testament to the enormous scope of the Nazis implementation of the final solution."
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Post by Alex » 06 Jun 2007, 18:00

From Prefect Isopescu Report on Nov 13, 1941:
"...When I received the district I found several camps of kikes here [...] Appr. 15,000 were gathered in the village of Vazdovka [here:GVOZDAVKA] in the Lubashevka subdistrict, a Romanian village [...] They were stricken with typhos in Vazdovka and appr. 8,000 of them died along those who died of starvation. To prevent the civilians from coming into contact with them, I made a special appeal to Inf. Reg. 20, asking for escorts to transfer them to Bogdanovka [...]

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