Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Scholars share info on WWII killings of Jews - USATODAY.com

"While no major surprises emerged, pieces of Ukraine's Holocaust story came together as never before: killings of Jews in western Ukraine before the Nazis arrived, botched Soviet orders to evacuate Jews from the encroaching Germans, mass grave sites only now being discovered — even as long-known Jewish grave sites are being abandoned, razed or used as open-air markets. 'We cannot underestimate this. It is historic, it is history that ... may be changed based on new information,' said Mikhail Tyaglyy of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies."

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