Some 17.5 tons of human ashes were discovered and unearthed near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland.announced on Wednesday the Institute of National Memory (IPN), which conducts investigations into Nazi and communist crimes.
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The remains were unearthed in Ilowo Osada, in the Bialucki Forest, near the former Dzialdowo concentration camp. (Soldau, in German, 150 km north of Warsaw), built during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II.}
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Since the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Soldau camp served as a place
transit, internment and extermination of political opponents, members of the Polish elites and Jews.
Some calculations suggest that 30,000 prisoners died in Soldau, but so far historical sources do not make it possible to certify this.
The discovery of this place “makes it easier to affirm that at least 8,000 people died here,” said Tomasz Jankowski, a prosecutor at the IPN.
This number is calculated from the weight of the remains. Two kilos of ashes correspond approximately to a body.
“The victims buried in this grave were probably killed around 1939 and belonged mostly to Polish elites,” according to Jankowski.
In 1944, Jewish prisoners were ordered to exhume the bodies and set them on fire, to erase traces of Nazi war crimes.
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*With information from AFP
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