December 24, 2020
In a small town named Hranivka in western Ukraine between Rivne and Lviv is a common grave in which 2,500 Jewish victims were undressed, shot/killed by the Nazis, and then stacked like cordwood in massive pits before being buried, sometimes while still breathing. While European Jewry went up in smoke in death camps located in various part of Poland which emptied the ghettos of Europe, in Ukraine, Byelorussia, and the Baltics, more than one million Jews were shot and buried in common graves scattered across the western Soviet Union in any number of places which still scar the landscape today.
At the forefront of this
operation at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of
1941 was the infamous Einsatzgruppen,
While I have visited the Krakow Ghetto, Treblinka and Auschwitz, and have seen the memorial at Babi Yar in Kyiv where some 100,000 Jews were shot during the war, this was my first time seeing one of these common graves that I have read so much about in my holocaust research. I was very surprised to see how it was a mound. The common grave was filled up to overflowing as they killed more Jews than the pit was dug for.
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