Ash Remains Of 8,000 People Discovered In Mass Grave Near Concentration Camp In Poland

The Polish Institute of National Remembrance ( IPN ) has discovered harrowing new evidence of a mass tomb nearby a World War 2 Nazi concentration camp , with ash tree believed to be made up of the remains of as many as 8,000 people .

It continues to build on the evidence that German Nazi urgently sample to cover the remainder of barbarity devote in Poland and neighboring countries .

The finding were announced in a late press hearing by IPN President Karol Nawrocki and Tomasz Jankowski , the top dog of the Branch Commission of Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation in Gdańsk .

“ The Germans decided to deflect the responsibility for the crimes they had committed . In the spring of 1944 , the bodies of people eat up here were excavated and incinerated . The unburned remains were ground , so that the crime would not see the light of twenty-four hour period and no one could be confine responsible . The natural covering - up has fail because the IPN is determined to look for the victim and heroes of WW2 and will never countenance even one of them to be forgotten , ” tell Nawrocki in astatement .

Weighing around 15.8 tonnes , a immense amount of human ash was unearth near the Soldau concentration camp in north - easterly Poland . The camp was designated as a " transit ingroup " , in which Judaic and Polish intelligentsia were held until expatriation to labor camps – though this was merely a humeral veil . Instead , the camp was used to eradicate train Polish people .

“ In the Soldau bivouac died the victims of the Intelligenzaktion , i.e. the German extinction action which aimed to rule out Polish state elite , ” said Karol Nawrocki .

There were various methods of body administration during the Holocaust atrocities , with charm POWs infamously forced to incinerate the corpse of do fellow POW in Auschwitz . allot to the conference , the physical structure from the Soldau camp were in the beginning buried in wad grave , before Nazis order captured Jewish people to labor up the bodies and burn them to embrace the crimes . historic estimatessuggest between 10,000–13,000 innocent people were kill in Soldau before it was take over by Soviet forces in 1945 and eventually liquidated at the oddment of the year .

sampling will now be taken from the ash tree and tested in a laboratory for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis in hope of identifying some of the victim , reportsAFP word .