Archaeologists found mass graves at the former Nazi death camp in Sobibor. The excavations were the first since World War II at the camp, which is located in eastern Poland. The graves could provide valuable new evidence about the number of victims, mainly Jews, who died in the Sobibor gas chambers.
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