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Это нащет всяких там памятников эсэс-овцам (из рассылки Holocaust News) Holocaust Trust Publishes Maps of Mass Graves
Maps showing the location of mass graves containing the remains of more than 200,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War were being published today by the Holocaust Education Trust.
The maps, covering the Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia, are the result of three years work by the Trust, with the assistance of British embassy officials.
Trust chairman and Labour peer Lord Janner said that they would help thousands of British Jews find the last resting place of their murdered relatives.
More than 180 sites of mass graves have been located in the two Baltic states and marked with signposts and monuments, he said.
There were some mass graves, the large ones that everybody knew about, but I have been to some in the wilderness or out in the forests where there were only one or two elderly people left alive who knew where they were, he told BBC Radio 4s Today programme.
It is wonderful that modern-day Lithuania has come to terms with its history and it is wonderful that people like myself and there are tens of thousands of us in the United Kingdom whose relatives were murdered at least now know where their relatives are buried.
Lord Janner said that many of his own relatives all of those who stayed behind and didnt manage to get out were interred in the graves.
He was today attending a ceremony in Lithuania to mark the publication of the maps, along with representatives of the British embassy and members of the country's tiny remaining Jewish community. |