Uncovering Nazi massacre of Jews on Belarus building site
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They're uncovering a little-known chapter of the Holocaust on a construction site in western Belarus.Since then, specially-trained soldiers have unearthed the remains of more than 1,000 Jews, killed when the city of Brest was occupied by Nazi Germany.Human remains were found as construction workers dug foundations for a new apartment blockHis military team usually searches for the bones of Soviet soldiers.
"When my parents returned, the city was half empty," Mikhail Kaplan says, flicking through black and white snapshots at his kitchen table.His mother and father only escaped the massacre because they were away when the Germans overran Brest. Mikhail's photographs are of aunts, uncles and cousins who were all killed.
Even now, the only Holocaust museum in Brest is a room in a basement, curated and run by the small Jewish community that settled in the city after its liberation.
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