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. Lakhays 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 Belaruss 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 Brests 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 Hitlers Final Solution.