In May, workers in the Ukraine laying a gas pipe line unearthed mass evidence of Nazi atrocities in a southern village---that same month construction workers constructing a new office building in western Ukraine unearthed more mass graves.Stumbling upon mass graves in not that unusual in Eastern Europe, less well known is how many more Martyr Sites lie undiscovered.
The Killing Sites Project of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem has identified from archives more than 700 settlements in the Ukraine and 200 in Belarus where Jews were massacred by the Nazi's.
Between 1941-1945 over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews were massacred by the Nazi's, the immense majority were murdered by Einsatzgruppen Firing Squads Waffan SS Units, the German Police and Nazi collaborators.
When Nazi forces invaded Eastern Europe, Waffan SS Units trailed behind murdering Jews along the countryside. The most notorious of these events occurred at Babi Yar the city ravine in Kiev where nearly 34,000 Jews were shot over 2 days in September, 1941
In smaller towns, Nazi's killed Jews in plain view, pulling Jews from their homes and killing them on the spot or in the streets the Einsatzgruppen's own record claims responsibility for more than 1 Million deaths.
Discovering these mass graves presents a belated opportunity to perform proper Jewish burials and say Kaddish for the victims. The research paints a clearer picture of the Nazi atrocities during the Second World War, as Holocaust Deniers such as Fascist Iranian President Ahmadinejad continues to claim that the Holocaust is a myth perpetrated by a vast Jewish conspiracy in the United States and Israel.
