KYIV, Ukraine A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp.
The grave was found by chance last month when workers were laying gas pipelines in the village of Gvozdavka-1, near Odessa, says Roman Shvartsman, a spokesman for the regional Jewish community.
He says Nazis established a concentration camp near the village in November 1941 and killed about 5,000 Jews at or near the site.
Ukraine's Jewish population was devastated during the Holocaust.
Babi Yar, a ravine outside the capital Kyiv where the Nazis alledgedly slaughtered some 34,000 Jews over two days in September 1941, is a powerful symbol of the tragedy.
2007-06-05
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