mass grave

Following outcry, Lithuanian city halts construction of bike path near Holocaust mass grave

Photos of the project in Šiauliai show two trails on either side of a monument to the victims of the genocide.

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 16, 2021 2:14 pm

An excavator digs near a mass grave of Jews in Veliucionys, Lithuania in February 2021. (Ruta Vanagaite)

Digging documented near privately owned mass grave of Jews in Lithuania

The Ministry of Culture in 2017 had promised to take over and prevent the sale of the final resting place of 1,159 Holocaust victims murdered in Veliucionys.

February 25, 2021 10:04 am

Second mass grave of Jewish Holocaust victims discovered in Romania

The remains of at least 40 people were found near the site of a massacre of Jews carried out by Nazi-allied Romanian troops.

July 3, 2019 7:15 am

People attending a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk on April 4, 2019. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images)

In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 21, 2019 3:05 pm

The aftermath of desecration in March 2019 of the mass grave of Holocaust victims near Raflivka, Ukraine. Courtesy of Eduard Dolinsky

Grave diggers desecrate killing pit of Holocaust victims in Ukraine for 2nd time this year

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 8, 2019 6:44 am

Remains of hundreds of bodies discovered at former Jewish ghetto of Brest, Belarus

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 21, 2019 7:38 pm

Report: Traveling zoo set up on Holocaust execution site in Ukraine

August 8, 2016 8:28 am

Jedwabne mayor calls for exhumation of Jewish mass grave

July 19, 2016 9:29 am

Excavation of WWII mass grave in Lithuania halted over Jewish concerns

July 16, 2015 1:30 pm

Mass Arab grave from ’48 war discovered in Jaffa

June 2, 2013 1:28 pm

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