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World Jewish News
Previously Unknown Tomb of Victims of Great Patriotic War Found Near Nikolaev
12.04.2009
In Zhovtnevy district of Nikolaev region, a man decided to dig a drain hole for bathwater in his garden. At the depth of about one meter, the spade bumped on something solid. The solid object was a human skull.
The man called the police. Having arrived at the scene, the investigative team found the remains of a person about 15 - 20 years old.
Taking the spades in their hands, the police found a skull and bones of another person, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs department in Nikolaev region. A forensic expert who examined the remains immediately pointed out that people had died violently. Law enforcement officers began to establish the circumstances of the deaths of these people.
The investigation did not find an explanation why the burial place contained no trace of clothing and footwear. But it was clear that these people had died a very long time ago - the bones were more than 60 years old.
The circumstances of that time became clear after the 83-year-old resident of the village, Zhurbenko Vassily Stepanovich, who had been witness to those events, told what had happened.
He explained that in distant 1943 the village hosted the armies of Germans and Romanians, who were terrorizing the territory of Nikolaev region.
The location was a wasteland, and the Germans shot the Jews, who were brought from Nikolayev, in the ravine. Many people died then, Vasily Stepanovich even remembers the number - 8400 people. Before the shootings, people were robbed and stripped, there clothes were given to the villagers. The Soviet POWs, brought from the nearest concentration camp, buried the dead. The fate of the soldiers was also sad, they were shot and buried in the same ravine.
One German, who took part in the shooting, did not shoot a 15-year-old boy who became the unwilling witness of the murder. Thus, Vasily saw all the atrocities of the fascists in his own eyes. In 1944, after the liberation of Nikolaev, the bodies were removed and buried on the cemeteries of Nikolaev, but the last bloody discovery shows that our land still holds a lot of mysteries.
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