A mass grave of 300 Jewish children who were murdered in cold blood by the Nazis in 1942 was opened in the holiday resort town of Teberdi in the Soviet Georgian Republic, it was reported here today. The local town council announced that it would erect a monument on the grave-site. The existence of the grave was known but it was never opened until now. The Gestapo massacred the children after picking them out of a children’s home in the town.
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