The skeletons of 2,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis during the German occupation of the Baku area in the Soviet Union were exhumed and reburied according to Jewish rites in the Baku Jewish cemetery, it was reported here today from Moscow.
Baku Jews were assisted in the grim task by local non-Jews, who placed the bones in special containers for re-interment. Most of the victims were Polish Jews who fled to Baku when Germany invaded Poland.
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