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Bialystok ghetto mass grave
mass grave
Mass grave holding victims and resistance fighters from the ghetto uprising.
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... placed in a mass grave. This military grave was dese-
crated, violating Polish tradition of paying special
honor to fallen soldiers. In no other ghetto or concen-
tration camp — Warsaw, Treblinka, Sobibor, Ausch-
witz — were there remains of fallen heroes. Only
Bialystok preserved a mass grave of its dead until 1971.
The Germans had, after all, not burned the bodies of
our victims. Rather, they threw them into a pit, a gar-
bage dump as it were, and on top of their corpses shot
another fifty-five, captured after the ghetto was liqui-
dated in 1943. With the greatest respect, the Polish and
Jewish communities of Bialystok honored their memo-
ries on April 11, 1946, exhuming their remains and re-
burying them in a mass grave. ...Connected nodes
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Exhumation and reburial of Bialystok ghetto victims
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re- burying them in a mass grave
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