The mass grave could hold up to 8,000 bodies
They have found, fundamentally, the ashes of the deceased
A common grave housed the amount of human ashes equivalent to 8,000 people very close to a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland. The country’s Institute for National Memory has been in charge of working in the grave and determining the origin of the bodies. Fundamentally, this organization is dedicated to continuing to study the crimes committed by Nazi Germany in Poland.
The concentration camp is Soldau, although it is now called Dzialdowo and is located north of Warsaw, the country’s capital. In the concentration camp they were around 30,000 people killedbut the exact number is impossible to know.
“It is proof of how thoroughly the Germans tried to erase the traces of the genocide they committed in Eastern Europe,” the Institute said in a statement. “They were probably killed around 1939 and belonged mostly to Polish elites,” it continued. the notice.
poland was militarily occupied by Nazi Germany in 1939It was the starting gun for World War II. Thus, the territory became one of the main locations of the Nazi death camps. The most famous, Auschwitz is also in Poland.