We visited this site outside Vilna, where the Nazis killed 80,000 Jews. It is a beautiful wooded area that was once called the Catskills of Lithuania as families vacationed there in the summers. There were storage pits there that had been dug by the Russians in the 1930s for fuel storage. The nazis took advantage of this setting and marchedpeople through the forest, into the pits or next to them, and then they were all shot and buried in the pits.
There was one escape from a pit that was being used to hold prisoners used to burn the bodies. 14 people out of 80 escapees made it. The tunnel they dug was recently discovered by scientists using ground penetrating technology and the photo of the man in the blue shirt is the professor leading the team from u Wisconsin eau Claire working on This discovery
Being there does not help one to understand.
Wow. I think it is hard to understand being anywhere. The tunnel discovery was big news back here also.
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