About 17.5 tons of human ashes have been discovered and exhumed near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the National Institute of Memory (IPN), which studies Nazi and Communist crimes, announced on Wednesday.
Ruins, II. It was excavated in Ilowo Osada in the Bialucki grove, near the former Dzialdowo concentration camp (Soldau in German, 150 km north of Warsaw), built during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II.
Since the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Soldau camp has served as a place of transit, detention, and extermination for political dissidents, the Polish elite, and Jews.
Some calculations show that 30,000 prisoners died in Soldau, but so far historical sources do not allow to confirm this.
The discovery of this site “let us say that at least 8,000 people died here,” said IPN prosecutor Tomasz Jankowski.
This number is calculated by the weight of the remains. Two kilograms of ash corresponds to approximately one trunk.
According to Jankowski, “The victims buried in this pit were probably killed around 1939 and were mostly Polish elites”.
In 1944, Jewish prisoners were ordered to exhume the bodies and burn them to remove traces of Nazi war crimes.
source: Noticias
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