Here is a brief article from the New York Times:
June 15, 2007
Finally, on a Sunny Hill in Ukraine, Respect for Victims of the Nazis
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Yesterday in Gvozdavka, Ukraine, Rabbi Shlomo Baksht removed a small cache of
human bones from a cardboard box and placed them in a shallow grave, a hole
once dug as a trench by villagers trying to thwart the advance of Nazi tanks in
the early 1940s.
Thus, he said, after six decades, these Jewish victims of Nazi brutality won
respect, with the recitation of Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.
The bones were dug up a year ago when a utility extended gas pipes into the
village, not far from Odessa, a traditional center of Jewish culture. Research
into wartime archives in Moscow found that the Nazis and their Romanian allies
had set up a concentration camp near this hillside, and that 4,772 inmates
had died there. Even yesterday, the rabbis searched the fields again, gathering
more bones for burial.
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