The Paper reporter Nan Boyi intern Wu Yinan On July 13, local time, the Polish National Memory Institute stated that a mass grave containing the ashes of 8,000 people was discovered near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland. The institute said this was evidence of Nazi Germ

The Paper reporter Nan Boyi intern Wu Yinan

On July 13, local time, the Polish National Memory Institute stated that a 10,000-person grave containing the ashes of 8,000 people was found near a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland pit. The institute said this was evidence of Nazi Germany's efforts to completely cover up the atrocities it committed in Eastern Europe.

According to Al Jazeera reported on July 13, in the Bialucki forest near the Soldau concentration camp in Poland, the Polish National Memory Institute discovered victims of the Nazi Holocaust during World War II who were buried there. of mass graves.

researcher Tomasz Jankowski revealed that the mass graves contained approximately 15.8 tons of human ashes. Based on the weight of the remains, it is estimated that the ashes of an adult are about two kilograms, which means that at least 8,000 people were buried here.

Jankovsky also pointed out that the victims in this mass grave may have been killed around 1939, and most of them were members of Poland's elite at that time.

The Polish National Memory Institute is mainly responsible for investigating crimes committed by the Nazis and the government of the Polish People's Republic during the occupation of Poland. The institute said Germany built the Soldau concentration camp when it occupied Poland during World War II and used it as a transit, detention and execution site for Jews, political opponents and members of Poland's political elite.

According to relevant data, it is estimated that the number of prisoners killed in the Soldau concentration camp is about 30,000, but in fact it has never been possible to confirm the true death toll.

In 1944, Nazi Germany ordered Jewish prisoners in the Soldau concentration camp to re-excavate and burn previously buried corpses to completely eliminate evidence of their war crimes.

"This is evidence of the Nazis' attempt to completely eliminate their genocide and other criminal acts in Eastern Europe." Poland's Institute of National Memory pointed out in a statement.

reported that Andrzej Ossowski, a genetics researcher from the Pomeranian Medical University, told the media that samples of ashes from the mass grave had been collected and will be used in experiments. room for further research. Ossovsky, who conducted similar studies at the concentration camps of Sobibor and Treblinka, added: "We can learn more about the identities of the victims through DNA analysis."

Senior editor of this issue Zhou Yuhua