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Behind the Aegis

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Thu Apr 4, 2019, 02:46 AM Apr 2019

(Jewish Group) Female skeleton cradling baby uncovered at Holocaust mass grave in Belarus

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

A skeleton of a mother cradling her baby was uncovered at a mass grave in the Belarusian city of Brest that was discovered months ago, reported the BBC.

The remains of more than 1,000 Jews have been unearthed by Belarusian soldiers.

Despite Gov. Alexander Rogachuk saying, “We will not allow the building of anything on bones of people,” officials are moving ahead with plans to build a luxury apartment building complex at the site.

The BBC report noted that almost half the 50,000-strong population of Brest on the eve of World War II were Jews.

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(Jewish Group) Female skeleton cradling baby uncovered at Holocaust mass grave in Belarus (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Apr 2019 OP
According to the New York Times there were bones of 1214 people! question everything May 2019 #1

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1. According to the New York Times there were bones of 1214 people!
Thu May 23, 2019, 02:11 PM
May 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/world/europe/belarus-holocaust-mass-grave.html

In the three months since that day, the ground next to Ms. Lakhay’s building has yielded the bones of 1,214 people. Most are believed to be the remains of Jews slaughtered by the Nazis after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Belarus was then part of the Soviet nation.

The discovery of such a large mass grave in the center of Brest, a handsome ancient city on Belarus’s western border with Poland, has brought into focus a little-understood chapter of the Holocaust in one of the first Soviet cities seized by the Nazis.

It has also put pressure on the local authorities to halt their plans for the elite housing development and explain why they approved the project in the first place.

Jews made up about half Brest’s population of around 60,000 in 1941, and were thought to have been killed mostly in a secluded forest 70 miles east. They had been taken there by rail in an early test of logistics for Hitler’s “Final Solution.”
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