Showing posts with label Mass Graves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mass Graves. Show all posts

August 29, 2015

Bodies From Holocaust Still Being Identified In Eastern Europe





[From article]
Desbois, a forensic anthropologist, published Holocaust by Bullets, on the Nazi mobile units that killed the Jewish population of small villages. Over the last decade he has been concerned with identifying and locating mass graves of Jews killed during the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Through careful research in Russia, Germany, and Washington, D.C., and by inspections of villages across the Ukraine and Eastern Europe and interviews with residents, Father Desbois and his team of Yahad-in-Unum have uncovered 2,000 mass killing sites in the continent of extermination.
Unlike Natalie Portman and like-minded persons, Desbois wants to make the world more, not less, aware of the assassinations of Jews. He asserts that some of the facts of the genocide have not been declared. He estimates that more than 1.5 million, more than the usually quoted figure, of victims were buried in the graves he found in Ukraine. He is anxious to locate all the sites – there may be more than 6,000 other sites to be uncovered – before all the witnesses, who only recently were ending their vow of silence about the atrocities, have died. Thus, history will not die with the witnesses. Desbois is aware that otherwise, the Holocaust deniers will overreact, as they have always done, and proclaim that Jews have falsified the story.
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The sickening photographs and script made public in August 2015 reveal in horrifying detail the humiliation, public beatings in the street, whippings, and individual murder of perhaps as many as 1.6 million Jews who were summarily shot and buried in graves nearby. Often Jews were forced to dig pits and to strip naked before being killed, or were buried alive. Jews were killed for fun, or because of boredom, anger, or drunkenness, or to rape the girls. The perpetrators ransacked the clothes of the victims for cash and valuables.
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Jews are still being assaulted in Kiev; Jewish synagogues, monuments, and cemeteries are still being desecrated. Anti-Semitic pamphlets are being distributed. Ukrainian nationalists still express anti-Semitic sentiments.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/the_holocaust_is_still_with_us.html

August 27, 2015
The Holocaust Is Still with Us
By Michael Curtis

December 8, 2014

Mass Graves From World War II Discovered in Poland



On Nov. 1, 2014, Warsaw residents light candles on the graves of Red Army soldiers killed while driving Nazi German troops from the city in January 1945. 
AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

[From article]
Over the course of six weeks, archaeologists have exhumed the remains of an estimated 3,000 men from eight mass graves in southeastern Poland—bones belonging to nearly-impossible-to-identify soldiers who were victims of the Nazis.
The Soviet and Italian troops were interned in a German stalag near the city of Przemysl, where they were shot, starved, worked to the point of collapse, or left to die of disease.
The remains include those of Italian soldiers who were treated as traitors after Benito Mussolini was deposed in 1943. AFP describes bones sorted by type, with ribs in one area, skulls in another.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/12/08/poland-unearths-thousands-nazi-victims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Poland unearths thousands of Nazi victims

By Evann Gastaldo
Published December 08, 2014
Newser

February 12, 2014

Thousands Of Bodies Found On Grounds of Former Mississippi Mental Hospital



[From article]
Officials now believe there may be as many as 2,000 century-old graves underneath the soil.
Archaeologists have been studying grave sites discovered on the UMC campus for some time; several dozen grave sites were discovered last year.
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'The property that the University of Mississippi Medical Center is located on used to be the location of the state insane asylum, which operated from 1855 to 1935,' Mazurak said.
'Historically we knew that there were a lot of graves, many of which were not marked. In the '90s, we took the handful of marked graves and reinterred them in a designated cemetery area,' he said.
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'We're guessing because there's no personal remains, no clothes, not even really any buttons or pins or anything, that they were probably residents of the asylum and either buried in a shroud or not buried with anything, so that would put them probably around in the mid to late 1800s to early 1900s,' said Anderson.
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Moving the bodies would reportedly cost about $3 million so the University has said it will probably look at alternate sites for construction, rather than try to relocate the graves.
The expansion will most likely be relocated to another location on the 164-acre campus.
It's possible there could be more unmarked graves belonging to tuberculosis patients, former slaves, or possibly even Civil War dead, according to the Clarion-Ledger.
The State Lunatic Asylum opened on the site in 1855, housing 150 patients.
After the end of the Civil War, it expanded to house more than 300 residents in a district known as Asylum Hill.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556767/Workers-discover-1-000-corpses-site-old-mental-asylum.html

What lies beneath? Gruesome find as workers discover more than 1,000 corpses at site of old Mississippi mental asylum
University of Mississippi Medical Center had planned to build a parking garage east of the dental school
Testing in the area revealed 1,000 bodies, believed to have been patients at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum a century ago
Future expansion plans might be halted because other bodies may lie beneath the earth including former slaves, TB victims and possibly even Civil War dead
Staff have always known there was a cemetery associated with the old asylum somewhere on the property, but no one knew for sure where it was until now
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 10:36 EST, 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 12:14 EST, 11 February 2014

September 10, 2013

Mass Graves Uncovered at FL Reform School

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407880/Arthur-G-Dozier-School-Boys-Excavation-graves-begins-Florida-reform-school-known-abuse.html

Researchers excavate graves at former Florida reform school where horrific abuse took place in hope of identifying the boys buried there and finding out how they died
Researchers began exhuming dozens of graves Saturday at the site of the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys
Former inmates at the reform school from the 1950s and 1960s have detailed horrific beatings that took place in a small, white concrete block building referred to as the 'White House'
USF has worked for months to secure a permit to exhume the remains
Ten families have contacted researchers in hopes of identifying relatives that might be buried at Dozier
By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 11:34 EST, 31 August 2013 | UPDATED: 23:29 EST, 31 August 2013