Nazi Victims’ Bodies Found in Warsaw
Poland said Friday that hundreds of corpses of Nazi victims had been unearthed near Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery but denied that the graveyard had been desecrated.
The National Remembrance Institute and the Main Commission for Investigating Nazi Crimes said 283 bodies were dug up at a former sports ground near the cemetery used by the Nazis as a killing field during World War II.
They said they were issuing their statement “in connection with rumors spread abroad that part of the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw is being devastated by construction work carried on there. . . .
“It must be said that the field in question is located near the Jewish Cemetery but it has never been either a Jewish or a Catholic graveyard,” the statement said.
It added, however, that the site was “a place marked with the blood of the victims of Nazism and as such it should be properly treated and commemorated.”
Workers digging a foundation trench at the former sports field unearthed human remains and investigators then dug up the 283 victims, the statement said.
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