Israel: Dug by Jews, tunnel from Nazi era found in Lithuania

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Source: Associated Press

June 29, 2016

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's antiquities authority says an international research team has located a tunnel in Lithuania dug by Jewish prisoners trying to escape their Nazi captors during World War II.

The authority said Wednesday the team from Israel, the U.S., Canada and Lithuania used mineral and oil exploration scanning technology to pinpoint the tunnel.

The 35-meter (115-foot) long tunnel is located in the Ponar forest, known today as Paneriai, where the Nazis killed some 100,000 people.

Toward the end of the war, prisoners were brought from the Stutthof concentration camp and forced to burn the bodies.

Secretly, they dug the underground tunnel out of a pit they were kept in. Forty prisoners escaped through the tunnel in 1944. Many were shot, but 11 reached partisan forces and survived.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-dug-jews-tunnel-nazi-era-found-lithuania-082244167.html

[Behind the Aegis]

1. 70 years later and history is still being revealed.

I don't think many know the lengths the Nazis went to in order to cover their crimes.

[Recursion]

2. I hope this can be preserved and studied

And you're right: the effort used to cover up the atrocities were immense, and we must not let their efforts win out.

[SunSeeker]

3. It must have taken a lot of ingenuity to move that much earth undetected.

Glad that at least 11 people made it through to safety. Heartbreaking to think about those who didn't...

[COLGATE4]

5. You really need to delete this.

[LanternWaste]

6. Your pretense of relevance is noted, and given all the credibility it in fact, warrants.

Your pretense of relevance is noted, and given all the credibility it in fact, warrants.

[Sunlei]

7. any place people dig in those death-lands, every field it will be a sea of buttons & teeth forever.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Sadly, you are correct.

The Nazis did what they could to erase the past, and for the most part, they actually did better than most, but time is now giving up those secrets.

[COLGATE4]

9. and lots of spent bullets...