New evidence of mass graves found at Treblinka

Treblinka on fire during prisoner revolt of August 2, 1943A team of archaeologists from the University of Birmingham have discovered new evidence of huge mass graves on the former site of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka.

Since the Nazis razed the camp in November of 1943 after a prisoner revolt, leaving little visible evidence of the 800,000+ Jews they’d slaughtered in just over a year of operation, Holocaust deniers have claimed that Treblinka wasn’t a death camp at all, but rather a transit station where prisoners were sorted before being shipped off to other labor camps. (Interestingly, that’s just what the SS told new arrivals before making them undress and sending them to the “showers” for “delousing.”)

This is the first coordinated scientific attempt to locate graves at Treblinka. Led by forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls, the research team used ground-penetrating radar and aerial and satellite imagery to look for burial sites without breaking ground, out of respect for Jewish Halacha law which forbids disturbing burial sites.

Bomb crater exposes buried bones, Treblinka, 1945Sturdy Colls said: “All the history books state that Treblinka was destroyed by the Nazis but the survey has demonstrated that simply isn’t the case.”

She added: “I’ve identified a number of buried pits using geophysical techniques. These are considerable in size, and very deep, one in particular is 26 by 17 metres.”

Treblinka excavator digging mass grave pitsDug by an enormous excavator from the quarry at the nearby Treblinka I forced labour camp, each of these large pits are thought to contain the charred remains of thousands of bodies. Some of the pits were used for burial, others as cremation pits. In March 1943, Heinrich Himmler visited the camp and ordered that all the bodies be cremated. The burial pits were opened and the corpses burned on cremation grates built out of railway tracks. There are pictures extant of the resulting ash heaps.

BBC Radio 4 will air a program following the Colls’ work at Treblinka. The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust first airs on Monday, January 23 at 8:00 PM.

A more personal witness to the horrors of the Holocaust can be found in a remarkable book recently published by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum: The Sketchbook from Auschwitz. In 1947, Józef Odi, a former prisoner who was working as a watchman on the Auschwitz grounds, found 32 sketches on 22 pages rolled into a bottle and hidden in the foundations of a barracks near the gas chambers and crematoria.

These incredible works of art, beautiful and horrifying in equal measure, are the only drawings made in Birkenau to depict the extermination of Jews. They are signed with the initials MM, so we don’t even know the name of the artist. We know from some of the depictions that they were made in 1943 and that the artist was immensely courageous to make these detailed drawings recording the systematic mass-murder of Jews, including badge numbers of functionary prisoners, license plates of trucks and train cars.

This is the first time all of the MM sketches have been published.

Prisoner steps forward at roll call The crematorium at work The separating of families

83 thoughts on “New evidence of mass graves found at Treblinka

  1. It’s amazing to me that an event as thoroughly documented and investigated as the Holocaust can still end up producing such a gigantic new find.

    Does anyone know how pictures from Birkenau ended up at Auschwitz?

    1. Birkenau is part of the Auschwitz complex. Auschwitz I came first. Then the Nazis expanded their murder operations and built a larger extermination camp called Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Birkenau was the name of a Polish village formerly on the site. The Nazis destroyed the village to make space for the expanded camp.

  2. Love your blog. Discoveries such as this, or the Ferguson ‘flat earth’ map, demonstrate so well the horrors of religion. Thanks.

    1. Thank you, David, although I think Nazism isn’t so easily attributed to religion unless all violent doctrinaire political philosophies count as religion.

      I admit I have a fondness for religious art despite my personal irreligion, which is why I adore Ferguson’s crazy map. As an artwork, it’s spectacular. 🙂

    1. I find it wryly amusing how cowardly Nazis are today. Did it start with Eichmann, I wonder, this pathetic inability to admit that you not only systematically mass-murdered millions of people but took pride in your execution of the Final Solution? Naw, because Himmler had Treblinka destroyed way back in the 1943. Looks like Nazis have been spineless cowards since the beginning.

  3. As a historian I have worked with Holocaust for some years, and I have visited the main sites (except Belsec). I find this very interesting indeed. I believe similar attempts have been made at Sobibor, although using more intrusive methods.

    This really isn’t about “proving” the Holocaust; I have no time for the deniers. It is about finding facts and minutiae of History, bringing to light and life what happened in this dark and deliberately obscured period.

  4. @JGillard

    Going on the presumption that you failed basic secondary school history (otherwise you would never have made the above comment) I’m not going to ask you to give any kind of reason for your view (mainly because i don’t want to read any Neo-Nazi propaganda, thank you very much) I’m simply going to suggest that you listen to this programme when it airs and actually attempt to understand (Don’t worry if it’s a bit beyond you, just go to BBCiplayer and listen again until you manage to understand all the long words) and perhaps show a bit of human compassion (if at all possible). Then go online and google holocaust… then once you’ve got some grasp of the topic come back and make a comment vaguely resembling intellegent.

    Please remember that my great-aunt was incarcerated at Auschwitz and had the six digit tattoo to prove it (she died eight years ago, and i am old enough to remeber seeing the tattoo first hand). If that’s not enough then google the Nuremburg trials, it happened and they admitted it even if “we were just following orders” was the worst possible defence ever written.

    I have proof that the holocaust happened and your denial is the worst possible insult.

  5. Although not an historian, I am interested in this period of history and will be listening to the radio programme with some interest. The excellent BBC mini-series Auschwitz – The Nazis and the Final Solution has a couple of eye-witness accounts from people who were there at Treblinka. It also has interviews with Oscar Groening, a German soldier who worked at Auschwitz. At the end of the war he, understandably, did not mention this but later realised that the deniers were overly vocal. He came forward to state categorically that it DID happen. It is important that such sites are investigated, documented and preserved for future generations. Indeed, Hitler’s eastern headquarters at th Wolfsschanze is being upgraded to provide better hotel accomodation for its many visitors.

  6. I, too, look forward to the broadcast as most (all) of you. What I can’t figure out is the point of anyone who appears to refute documented facts in (recent) history.

    The Holocost was not ancient history. This isn’t like debating if there was a Lost city of Atlantis, or interpretting ancient cave dwelling images. If someone isn’t on board with translating those cave drawings into extra-terrestrials landing on Earth and giving tutorials to the Egyptions re: Pyramid construction for Dummies…ok. I get it. A little too too much for some. No problem. But claiming none (or most) of the events didn’t take place during a war that was a mere 60 years ago is laughable. It’s either a case of Internet trolling..an intentional post, comment, remark, question or image..designed to rile, create un-rest, or cause a stir..

    Or, an individual who enjoys being contrary to one and all. Contradicting facts being their personal M.O. Everyone says white, the pot-stirrer says black. Anti-social..a real rebel without a cause. Yeesh.

    For every document found, there is still so much yet to be discovered and investigated re: the Death Camps and it’s occupants. There are still people who are survivors out there to tell the tale and it can be proven.

    Here’s to learning all we can.

  7. This is not the first time that such studies have been done. This new study by the BBC is only done to confuse and cover up the facts that were discovered by the earlier studies by Richard Krege, an Australian engineer:

    “For six days in October 1999, an Australian team headed by Richard Krege, a qualified electronics engineer, carried out an examination of the soil at the site of the former Treblinka II camp in Poland. … Krege’s team used an $80,000 Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) device, which sends out vertical radar signals that are visible on a computer monitor. GPR detects any large-scale disturbances in the soil structure to a normal effective depth of four or five meters, and sometimes up to ten meters. (GPR devices are routinely used around the world by geologists, archeologists, and police.) In its Treblinka investigation, Krege’s team also carried out visual soil inspections, and used an auger to take numerous soil core samples…. The team carefully examined the entire Treblinka II site, especially the alleged “mass graves” portion, and carried out control examinations of the surrounding area. They found no soil disturbance consistent with the burial of hundreds of thousands of bodies, or even evidence that the ground had ever been disturbed. In addition, Krege and his team found no evidence of individual graves, bone remains, human ashes, or wood ashes….. Krege says that he would welcome the formation, possibly under United Nations auspices, of an international team of neutral, qualified specialists, to carry out similar investigations at the sites of all the wartime German camps.”

    Just for laughs why doesn’t the BBC do a scientific investigation for a change? Say for example go and investigate the Billions of Jewish Shrunken Heads that according to the Nuremberg trials were made by the bad, bad Germans! Or figure out why the Germans carefully tattooed and kept records of people who were to be Gassed to death in less than thirty minutes? According to the Holocaust-Myth the people who got to the camps were ALL killed in less than 30min in gas chambers, yet they have NEVER shown even one single body Jewish or otherwise that was killed in a German gas chamber during the second world war; NOT ONE BODY! There should be billions of them according to the Holocaust religion priests, but no one could ever find one! Considering that the Allies supposedly walked into these camps while the mythical gasings were taking place and they did thousands of medical examinations of the people in Poland, live and dead, they should have found at least ONE!

    So, leave the soil alone and let’s scientifically examine the billions of Jewish Shrunken heads, Tattooed Jewish skin lampshades, and Jewish fat soaps that the Nuremberg trials tried to show as undeniable evidence for gas chambers, because they could not find any real evidence! :p

    1. I have a wartime picture in this very post of huge earth movers digging on the grounds of Treblinka. There are craters from Allied artillery that are still discernible with the naked eye. The local Poles dug so fervently looking for Jewish gold after the Nazis closed the camp that Ukranian guards were sent to keep them out. Polish officials excavated Treblinka in November of 1945, and even if you don’t believe their detailed reports of having discovered 2 hectares of human ashes and vast pits of decomposing human remains, they still disturbed the soil on a large scale.

      It’s therefore risible on its face that Krege’s team, which was of course sponsored by a Holocaust denial “think tank,” for want of a better term, found no large-scale disturbances. The Holocaust denial organization that wrote the second paragraph of your comment 12 years ago claimed Krege was preparing a “detailed report on his Treblinka investigation.” Where is this report? I’ve searched high and low for it and it doesn’t exist. There are only news stories and revisionist propaganda outlets repeating the same summary. But I’m sure you must have seen this report, right? Since the evidence is so important to you, surely you wouldn’t repeat a fourth-hand rumor about a study without having seen the study itself, right?

  8. First of all I’m not a Holocaust Denier. Being of Latvian-American origin my own family saw the Holocaust take place in Nazi occupied Latvia. Secondly my University Education is Cultural Anthropology not Physical Anthropology. Yet, I’ve done extensive research on the Treblinka site read the maps, testimony of the escapees and trial accounts. And seen models made by the survivors.

    I do see a major inconsistency in Caroline Sturdy Colls reported locations of burial pits. She places the major burial pits smack in the middle of the Camp II Sorting Yard and Sorting Warehouses according to Richard Glazers’ account where these were located.

    Secondly the reported gas chamber foundations are in consistent with eye wittiness accounts. These reported location would lay in the earthen mounds the Nazis had employed to hide the upper camp from eyesight.

    Third in consistency. The location of the “undressing huts” far to south and where is “the tunnel” the victims were forced to march to their fate?

    Fourth, Her reported burial pits do correspond with the Polish and Red Army survey of 1947 to descriptions of looter pits they discovered upon their visit and final cordoning off of Treblinka in 1947.

    Perhaps I’m missing something. Might be there more detailed site of her teams findings? Or will shall this data be published?

  9. You, Sir, are delusional at best.

    Exactly where had Krege published anything about his trip to Treblinka? No, a single picture and a blurb does not count.

    Since Krege himself is unable to publish his report, and every holocaust denier on the planet seems unable to provide any verifiable information on the results or the methodology of this nonexistent report, you have a choice when it comes to how you want to be judged. Your choices are to either be branded a liar, or an ignoramus. We cannot rule out the possibility of both, however.

    The soap myth is just that – a myth. Incidentally debunked by real historians, not ideologically driven amateurs like yourself.

  10. What happened to six million human beings?

    Simple math

    Dig a pit 26 meters wide 7 meters deep. Take one person and cremate them reducing them to ash and bone weighting .91 kilograms. How many human beings would then be needed to fill that pit?

    Once you figure out the simple math. You have a pretty good idea of what happened to all those Jewish victims.

    Such places Birkenau had pits of 70 to 100 meters by 7 meters. Human fat still to this day seeps up to the surface after a hard rain and much of the surround forest is off limits since you’ll sink up to your knees into ash dumps.

  11. So you ask for a “detailed report on his Treblinka investigation.” That is a fair thing to ask for. I mention the Krege’s report simply because the BBC statements make it appear as if such Ground penetrating radar studies have never been done by anyone else in the past. But consider the fate of those who went down the path of writing a truthful report on the Holocaust Myth. Firstly, Who will publish it for them? There may be such a report on some obscure webpage that has not been terminated yet, but no scientific journal would dare to publish such a report. Take a look at those who wrote similar reports in the past:

    Germar Rudolf a chemist wrote the The Rudolf Report: “Expert Report on Chemical and Technical Aspects of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz (2001)”, he was picked up and put in jail. Not by fact, but rather BY LAW the holocaust happened and any one who asks or looks for factual evidence or presents Facts about the Holohoax, BY LAW, is picked up and jailed. There are such laws in many of the “Western” countries around the world.

    David Irving a historian, has been beaten by Jewish mobs and jailed several times now, even for writing a book about the second world war and failing to talk about the Holohoax in his WW2 book!

    David Cole a Jewish revisionist who showed that the alleged Gas chambers at Auschwitz are all fake and were constructed AFTER the War by the Russian Jewish Communists. He was reportedly threatened, so he recanted his remarks and is now vanished from the revisionist studies.

    Fred A. Leuchter, a Gas Chamber construction Expert from US. He wrote “The Leuchter Report: The First Forensic Examination of Auschwitz (Focal Point Publications – 81 Duke Street, London W1M 5DJ”. Because of this he lost his job, ridiculous criminal charges were brought against him, several states “refused to pay him for previously contracted or agreed work”, he was arrested and banned from entering England.

    Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel a publisher, published a booklet written by someone else! For this he was beaten by Jewish Gangs, his house was burned down by Jewish gangs, he was arrested several times and jailed several times. He was even arrested and sent to Europe to be jailed there for a few years. All of this for publishing a booklet and telling the truth!

    Robert Faurisson, “He is a recognized specialist of text and document analysis.” Remember the mountains of documents that the Holohoax people always claim to exist for the proof of the holohoax; the so called “Most documented Event in History”. Dr. Faurisson started out as a firm believer of the Holocaust Myth, but then he took a closer look at the evidence. Dr. Faurisson was one of the first people who thoroughly examined the Holohoax documents and came to the conclusion that there are Zero real documented proofs for the Holohoax. All the documents shown as proofs are in one way or another forgeries and fake. He has been beaten to near death by Jewish gangs, and he has been fined and jailed several times, simply for asking to see ONE real non-forgery document for the alleged Holohoax Mythology.

    This list goes on and on. Many Scientists, Historians, Politicians, and others have been jailed for simply asking to see a single scientifically valid factual evidence for the Holohoax. The WW2 Jewish holocaust is not a real event that took place on Earth, instead the LAW says that it took place and if you ask for any evidence you go to jail in many of the “western” countries. That is perhaps why you have not seen Richard Krege’s report.

    The following are not scientifically valid evidence for Gas chambers: Doctored photographs, forged documents, live Jewish people with or without Tattoos, Survivors having miraculously survived several Gassings only to escape and live with wolves in the forest for many years, paid Jewish eyewitnesses, tortured confessions from German soldiers, and claiming that my hundred year old grandpa went missing during the WORLD WAR in the middle of the WORLD WAR in Europe, therefore the Germans killed him in some diabolical magically disappearing Gas chambers on planet Pluto and erased every trace of it just as the Allies walked in!

    Again forget the soil samples, let us all ask the good people at BBC to Show us the Billions of Jewish Shrunken Heads, the Tattooed Jewish Lampshades, and the Jewish Fat Soaps that were shown as almost the only tangible physical evidence for the Holocaust Myth. These were not “Myths” made up by the Nazis. These were claims made by the Jews and shown in the Nuremberg trials. People were Jailed, and Executed based on these “FACTS” that were presented by the American prosecutors at those trials. Go look at the documented survivor stories. Even today, your average Holohoax Survivor talks about having seen them with their own eyes. Lets do a scientific examination of these items. If they can’t show us a few billion Jewish Shrunken Heads that are scientifically proven to have been killed in German Gas Chambers During the Second World War, then the Holocaust did not happen. It is a very simple test. Billions of Jewish Shrunken heads form Gas Chambers equals Holocaust. Can’t find the Shrunken heads equals no Holocaust. It is that simple.

    Disclaimer: I myself believe that the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in its entirety took place. I am a total believer of the whole sorted nonsense, I mean story, I mean FACTS. Just in case anyone wants to put me in jail or call me names, remember that in the above statements I am simply stating other people’s opinions and beliefs. I think they are all wrong and The Holocaust is absolutely one hundred percent true. :hattip:

    1. In other words, you have no idea what Krege did or did not do, what he found or did not find, because despite his promise that a full report was forthcoming and despite the endless piles of Holocaust denial plastered all over the Internet without a single repercussion for the posters, poor Krege would be treated meanly if he did what he said he’d do. How predictable.

  12. I grew up in the small town called Malkinia which is just a few kilometers away from Treblinka [or rather Treblinka is just a few kms from Malkinia]. All the trains coming from Warsaw had to go through Malkinia train station – these were true! Even years after the war they were telling us about the smoke seen from the other bank of Bug river… These are not lies! I will never understand the people who deny the facts – it is great to see though that there are still people standing by the truth… no matter how difficult the truth might be…

  13. Let Us examine the Billions of Jewish Shrunken Heads, the Tattooed Jewish Lampshades, and the Jewish Fat Soaps that were shown as almost the only tangible physical evidence for the Holocaust Myth. It is a very simple test. Billions of Jewish Shrunken heads form WW2 Gas Chambers equals Holocaust. Can’t find the Shrunken heads equals no Holocaust. It is that simple.

    “Disclaimer: I myself believe that the WW2 Jewish Holocaust in its entirety took place. Just in case anyone wants to put me in jail or call me names.”

  14. The Tomb of Rabbi Yehuda bar Iloi in Israel:
    “Steep steps go down into the burial-cave, where a stone placard proclaims: “In this place was buried soap that was made from Jews, May G-d Avenge their deaths, murdered by the Germans, May their names be eradicated”. In 1949, there was a public burial ceremony at Rabbi Yehuda Bar Ila’i’s cave. Many Jewish residents from Tzfat came and buried the soap made by the Nazis from the fat of murdered Jews. This soap was brought to Israel by an immigrant who survived the inferno.”

    Ashkenazic Cemetery Monument to the 6 Million in Cuba:
    “Honoring their memory In this place are buried pieces of soap made from Jewish human fat, part of the 6 million victims of the Nazi barbarism of the 20th Century. Peace to their remains.”

    There are many other such memorials made and are being made for the Jewish Fat Soaps and the other Holohoax myths.

    Yes you are right the Soap Myth was a LIE made up primarily by the Jewish people, just like the rest of the Holohoax “Myth”. On that, I agree with you. Real historians said it was a lie from day one. Real historians say that the rest of the WW2 Jewish Holohoax is also just a series of lies.

    Disclaimer: In case you plan to call me more names, I personally totally believe the entire Holocaust Myth. I am simply stating what some other people who are willing to tell the truth about history might say. They can’t help it if they are ideologically driven to find the evidence and fact based truth about historical events.

  15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_made_from_human_corpses

    “”The idea that “human soap” was manufactured on an industrial scale by the Nazis was published after the war by Alain Resnais, who treated the testimony of Holocaust survivors as fact in his noted 1955 holocaust documentary movie Nuit et brouillard. Some postwar Israelis also referred disdainfully to Jewish victims of Nazism with the Hebrew word סבון (sabon, “soap”).[17]

    Though evidence does exist of small-scale soap production, possibly experimental, in the camp at Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig/Gdansk,[18] mainstream scholars of the Holocaust consider the idea that the Nazis manufactured soap on an industrial scale to be part of World War II folklore.[1][2][19][3][20][21][22] Historian Israel Gutman has stated that “it was never done on a mass scale”.[18] In Hitler’s Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness Konnilyn Feig concludes that the Nazis “did indeed use human fat for the making of soap at Stutthof,” albeit in limited quantity. Holocaust historian Robert Melvin Spector writes that “her analysis seems sound, given the known fact that the S.S. used everything it could obtain from its prisoners”, including hair, skin and bones.[23]

    In 2006 a sample of the soap archived at the International Court of Justice in The Hague was given for analysis to Andrzej Stołyhwo, an expert in the chemistry of fats from the Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. He concluded that some of the fat in the sample tested was of human origin. The sample of soap had previously been used as evidence in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, but at the time the technology was unavailable to determine whether the soap had been produced from human fat. The human remains used to make the soap were believed to have been brought from Kaliningrad, Bydgoszcz and Stutthof concentration camp.[24][25]

    Today Holocaust deniers employ this controversy to cast aspersions on the veracity of the Nazi genocide.[26]””

  16. “The idea that “human soap” was manufactured on an industrial scale by the Nazis was published after the war by Alain Resnais, who treated the testimony of Holocaust survivors as fact in his noted 1955 holocaust documentary movie Nuit et brouillard. Some postwar Israelis also referred disdainfully to Jewish victims of Nazism with the Hebrew word סבון (sabon, “soap”).

    Though evidence does exist of small-scale soap production, possibly experimental, in the camp at Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig/Gdansk, mainstream scholars of the Holocaust consider the idea that the Nazis manufactured soap on an industrial scale to be part of World War II folklore. Historian Israel Gutman has stated that “it was never done on a mass scale”. In Hitler’s Death Camps: The Sanity of Madness Konnilyn Feig concludes that the Nazis “did indeed use human fat for the making of soap at Stutthof,” albeit in limited quantity. Holocaust historian Robert Melvin Spector writes that “her analysis seems sound, given the known fact that the S.S. used everything it could obtain from its prisoners”, including hair, skin and bones.

    In 2006 a sample of the soap archived at the International Court of Justice in The Hague was given for analysis to Andrzej Stołyhwo, an expert in the chemistry of fats from the Gdansk University of Technology in Poland. He concluded that some of the fat in the sample tested was of human origin. The sample of soap had previously been used as evidence in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, but at the time the technology was unavailable to determine whether the soap had been produced from human fat. The human remains used to make the soap were believed to have been brought from Kaliningrad, Bydgoszcz and Stutthof concentration camp.

    Today Holocaust deniers employ this controversy to cast aspersions on the veracity of the Nazi genocide.”

    Wiki page : Soap made from human corpses

  17. Such a sad little human being you are Holocaust deniers when you have to hide Anonymous.

    You want to debate the Holocaust. Ok lets debate. Your speaking to a son of former Waffin SS Officer in the 19th Latvian Legion.

    My Father (later cleared by Allies) Saw it in action what the Germans were doing to the Jews..

    Now come on little man come out of hiding and lets debate shall we?

    Your a Anti-Semite just a jew hating little coward of a Semite.. That wish to god that holocaust didn’t happen so that you can go on hating guilt free.

    Now come out and lets debate.

  18. “Tests show that Nazis used human remains to make soap”
    The Nazis used human fat to make soap during World War II in a Nazi German medical academy located in what is now the Polish Baltic sea port city of Gdansk, Polish war crimes prosecutors confirmed on Friday, pointing to new laboratory tests.

    Officials with Poland’s Institute for National Remembrance (IPN) based their findings on a laboratory analysis of a piece of soap found in 1945 in the medical academy in Gdansk run by Nazi German Professor Rudolf Spanner.

    A new laboratory analysis of the soap revealed human fat was one of its components, spokesperson for the Gdansk branch of the IPN, Paulina Szumera, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in a telephone interview on Friday.

    Commissioned by the IPN, Professor Andrzej Stolyhwo of the Warsaw Agricultural University found human tissue in the soap.

    The piece of soap was used as evidence in the post-WWII Nuremburg Trials where prominent German Nazis were prosecuted for crimes against humanity. At the time, prosecutors lacked the technology to determine whether the soap contained human tissue.

    Human remains used to make the soap were believed to have been brought from Kaliningrad, Bydgoszcz and the Stutthof Nazi German concentration camp located about 30 from Gdansk.

    The IPN investigation found that the soap in question produced by Professor Spanner was used to clean operating and autopsy rooms. — Sapa-dpa

  19. Holocaust deniers ply their mendacious poison everywhere, especially with young people on the Internet. Deniers seek to distort the truth in a way that promotes antagonism against the object of their hatred, or to deny the culpability of their ancestors and heroes. Humanity has an obligation to counter their lies. If we ignore them, they will twist the minds of countless young people, creating a new generation of those who deny the facts of the worst episode of genocide in history.

  20. My Father was forced at gun point to serve in the German Army during the Nazi occupation of Latvia. He saw with his own eyes what the Germans were doing.. If you spoke up against it you were shot on sight. .. I thank God that my Father was in a infantry fighting unit on the Eastern Front his cleared US/UK Paperwork shows this. Still he taught us ‘Never to Forget’ and never keep silent when an injustice is being committed.

    My Mom and her Family were Latvian Who fled Latvia as the Soviet Union Occupied. They ended up in “Displaced Persons Camp” with some 300,000 others in still Nazi Germany. For the life of them no one could figure out why there was a constant black smoke of meat filling the entire area of where the camp was located. .. They couldn’t figure out until one day were walking the main road into nearby villages to barter and trade.. .. A part of that road past the back fences of Dachau. It was only learned after the war upon the USA Liberation of the area.. The so called “Displaced Latvians were 3rd on the list to be exterminated” That’s why the Germans had moved them all into a Sub Camp of Dachau to wait their special treatment following the Poles and Jews.

    I know I shouldn’t hate.. Nor in anyway disrespect the dead… But I truly feel that Jewish community should allow one of the Mass Graves at Treblinka to be opened and shown to world.. The deepest one. And then one by one we force each and every Holocaust denier to spend the night in it.

    Lastly let us not forget the Holocausts that the Soviet Union Committed Under Stalin and the Communists. The some 35,000,000 – 75,000,000 victims of Communist Slave Labor, Death Camps and out right murder squads. “Uncle Joe!” Which the British and Americans slapped on the back as friend in World War II.

    Still that is nothing compared to the Holocaust against the Jewish People. The deliberate GENOCIDE of entire people based on their ethnic and religious background. That boggles this Anthropologist mind even to this day..

    NEVER FORGET! And NEVER AGAIN!

    Edgars F

    .

  21. A few inches above on this same page I ask you to show us the billions of Jewish fat soaps, Jewish Shrunken Heads, and the Tattooed Jewish skin lampshades that were shown as almost the only physical evidence for the Holohoax. To this you basically say that the Jewish soap is a myth made up by the deniers and no respectable Jewish person has ever said it or believed it (you said: “The soap myth is just that – a myth. Incidentally debunked by real historians, not ideologically driven amateurs like yourself.”). So I show you that the Jews have murdered Germans based on this Soap “myth” and have even got memorials erected to the Jewish Fat soaps around the world. So suddenly you change your mind and say that in fact your father saw the Germans do all these horrible things and yes all historians know that the Germans made Jewish fat soaps! (you said: “Tests show that Nazis used human remains to make soap”)

    Okay, which is it? make up Your mind before typing your next response. Is the Jewish fat soap fact or myth? Or is this another one of the Famous Jewish dual ambiguity beliefs that keep changing depending on which answer best suites the moment at hand?

    Disclaimer: The answer above is what a truth telling historian might give, not someone like me who is believer of the entire Holohoax mythology without any questions.

  22. “I’ve identified a number of buried pits using geophysical techniques. These are considerable in size, and very deep, one in particular is 26 by 17 metres.”
    Really Mr Sturdy Colls? Where is your report then? Are there any videos of you in the field identifying those graves? Are there any videos of the crushed bones that “can be seen in the surface after rain”? Are there any samples? Where is the evidence? You people just don´t understand that most people are not holocaust deniers per se, but just skeptic innocent people like me. I hate Nazism and hate idiot Neo Nazis, I just want the truth. We are tired of blablabla, we want evidence. 65 million years after the dinosaurs were extint we can still have skelletons on museums, but 6 million people died and 70 years after not a single body was found on the ground. And now, we have this ultimate expert with the ultimate technologies on a 200×300 m field where 900,000 people were buried, and all we get one year after this “groundbreaking study” is more blablabla on some radio show??? IS THIS A JOKE??? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? WHERE? I´m tired of this bullshit and each day that passes I´m more and more convinced: THE HOLOCAUST JUST DIDN´T HAPPENED!!!

  23. You mean this evidence?

    http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/modern/archreview.html

    Archaeological Investigations

    A Review By Historians: Robin O’Neil, Salisbury and Michael Tregenza, Lublin.

    Acknowledgment to The Torun Team of archaeologists and the cartographer, Billy Rutherford.

    Published with the exclusive permission of the author

    Introduction

    The investigation carried out at Bełżec by leading archaeologists was historically unique, as no similar investigations had been carried out at the other two designated pure death camps of Sobibór and Treblinka. The magnitude of what occurred in Bełżec has never been fully described in the historical literature until now. According to previous studies, which have always been inhibited by lack of eye-witness evidence, several hundred thousand Jews perished in Bełżec. The archaeological investigations confirm by overwhelming evidence that mass murder was committed here on an unprecedented scale and that there was a determined attempt to conceal the enormity of the crime. In this the Nazis failed. The material unearthed at Bełżec not only confirmed the crime but enabled, by scientific analysis, the historians to re-construct for the first time the probable layout of the camp in the first and second phases.

    “… The fourth investigation 1997-2000.

    The phases of this most recent investigation were directed by Professor Andrzej Kola, director of the Archaeological at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. The principal Investigating officers on site were: Dr Mieczysław Gora, Senior Curator of the Museum of Ethnology in Łódż, Poland, assisted by Dr Wojciech Szulta and Dr. Ryszard Każmierczak. Unemployed males from Bełżec village were engaged in all three investigations to assist with the labour-intensive drilling.”

    Mass Grave locations 7 – 33

    Grave pit No. 7: initially located in October 1997 is located in the vicinity of symbolic tomb No. 4 at the eastern-central part of the camp. Dimension of the grave (in a shape closely resembling a trapezoid) was determined as 13 m x 14 m., and a height of 27m.at a depth of 4. 50m. the symbolic tomb lay just to the right (south) of the grave. It contained carbonised pieces of wood and fragments of burnt human bones mixed with dark grey ash. Area: 1,600 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 8: located at the south-western part of the camp. Dimensions were determined as 28 m x 10 m x 4 m. and contained burnt pieces of human bones and fragments of carbonised wood. Area: 850 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 9: located immediately behind symbolic tomb No. 1, next to the northeast fence. Dimensions determined as 10 m x 8 m x 3, 80 m. and contained burnt human remains and pieces of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand. Area: 280 sq m.

    (Surface soil/sand in the vicinity of graves 7, 8 and 9 was grey in colour suggesting large quantities of crushed pieces of human bone).

    Grave pit No. 10: one of the biggest graves; located in the northern-central part of the camp. Dimension determined as 24 m x 18 m x 5 m. Contained a thick layer of human fat, unburned human remains, and pieces of unburned large human bones. The drill core brought to the surface several lumps of foul smelling fatty tissue still in a state of decomposition, mixed with greasy lime. Area: 2,100 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 11: located at north-eastern corner of the camp. Dimension determined as 9 m x 5 m x 1 90 m. and contained a few fragments of burnt human bones mixed with innumerable small pieces of carbonised wood. Area: 80 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 12: located immediately to the north of grave No. 10; an L-shaped grave with the foot measuring 20 m, lying to the west. The stem was 28 m in length, pointing north. A small number of pieces of unburned human bones were found at a depth of 3 m, mixed with grey sand and innumerable small fragments of carbonised wood. This layer extended to a depth of 4.40 m. Area: 400 sq m

    Grave pit No. 13: located next to the western fence. Dimensions of the grave (trapezoid in shape), was determined as 12.50 m x 11.00 m x at a height of 17 m., (?) 4.80 m. deep. Contained a mixture of burnt human remains and pieces of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand. Area: 920 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 14: the largest grave basin in the camp that extended beyond the north fence into the area of the adjacent timber yard. The section within the fence is an irregular zigzag on the south side, measuring 37 m x 10 m at its widest point east to west, and 8 m at its narrowest, and 5 m deep. It contained burnt pieces of human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey, sandy soil to a depth of 5 m. originally; grave No. 14 could have measured ca. 70 m. x 30 m. Area: 1,850 sq m.

    (According to witnesses: the first and largest mass grave [No. 14] was dug by members of the Soviet guard unit while the camp was under construction. It took six weeks to complete the task.)

    Grave pit No. 15: another small grave measuring 13.50 m x 6.50 m, with a depth of 4.50 m, was situated adjacent to the south side of grave No. 14, and containing a mixture of pieces of burnt human bones fragments of carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 400 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 16: located adjacent to grave No. 14 and immediately east of grave No. 15. Measuring 18.50 m x 9.50 m, it contained a mixture of burnt fragments of human bones and carbonised wood to a depth of 4.00 m. Area: 700 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 17: situated next to and south of graves 12 and 16, measures 17 m x 7 m 50 m x 4 m. Contained a mixture of pieces of burnt human bones, carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 500 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 18: situated next to the southern edge of grave No. 15 and measuring 16 m x 9 m x 4 m. Contained the same mixture of burnt pieces of human bones, carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 570 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 19: located within the area formed by graves 14, 15, 18 and 20, and close to the south-western corner of grave 14, measuring 12 m x 12 m and containing a mixture of grey sand, burnt pieces of human bones and carbonised wood to a depth of 4 m. Area: 500 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 20: in the form of a long trench at the western end of grave No. 14, and is the last one at the northern end of the group of 18 graves along the north fence. In the same manner as its neighbour, grave No. 14, it also extends beyond the north fence into the area of the adjacent timber yard. The section within the fence measures 26 m. x 11 m x 5 m. At a depth of 4 m. there was found a dental bridge with four false teeth. Area: 1,150 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 21: located centrally. Dimensions determined as 5 m sq and situated in the forested southern part of the memorial area, midway between graves 5 and 7. It is also unexpectedly shallow, being only 1.70 m deep and containing pieces of burnt human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand. Area: 35 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 22: located in the eastern part of the camp in the shape of an inverted ‘L’, close to grave No. 6. Measuring 27 m on the long (east) side and 10 m on the south side, containing pieces of burnt human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand to a depth of 3.50 m. Area: 200 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 23: one of the smaller graves, measuring 16 m x 8 50 m x 4 20 m and located between graves 6 and 21. Contained burnt human remains. Area: 550 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 24: a narrow trench measuring 20 m x 5 50 m x 5 m., located at the north fence and next to the eastern corner of grave No. 14. Contained burnt human remains. Area: 520 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 25: located immediately to the east of graves 12 and 14. Dimension determined as 12 m x 5 m. Contained a mixture of burnt human remains, including corpses and skeletons, to a depth of 4 m. Below this level, there was a 1 m deep layer of waxy fat and greasy lime. A foul odour was released when the drill penetrated the layer of corpses and the drill core withdrew lumps of decaying fatty tissue and large pieces of bone. Area: 250 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 26: another small grave, measuring 13 m x 7 m x 4.20 m, and located immediately next to the eastern edge of grave No. 25. Contained a mixture of burnt human remains. Area: 320 sq m.

    (Note: The soil above and around graves 25 and 26 is covered with a layer of

    innumerable small fragments of burnt human bones and small pieces of carbonised wood)

    Grave pit No. 27: measuring 18.50 m x 6 m x 6 m, and situated close to the north end of grave No. 25. Contained burnt and unburned human remain: the top layer consists of burnt human bones and carbonised wood beneath which there is a layer of grey, waxy lime. The bottom of the grave contains completely decomposed human remains mixed with putrid smelling greasy human fat. Area: 450 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 28: one of the smallest graves measuring 6 m x 6 m x 5 m, located between grave 27 and the north fence. Containing burnt human remains beneath which there is a layer of grey greasy lime. The bottom of the grave is lined with putrid smelling, greasy human fat. Area: 70 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 29: measuring 25 m x 9 m x 4.50 in the form of a long trench and located just to the north- east of grave 26; its eastern corner is immediately in front of symbolic tomb No. 1. Contained pieces of burnt human bones mixed with fragments of carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 900 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 30: located in the north angle between graves 26 and 29 and measured 5 m x 6 m. Contained pieces of burnt human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand to a depth of 2 70 m. Area: 75 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 31: similar in size to grave No. 30, measuring 9 m x 4 m x 2 60 m. Situated next to the north fence between graves 28 and 29, this grave also contained a mixture of burnt pieces of human bones, fragments of carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 90 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 32: situated close to the north corner of the memorial site between graves 9, 13, and measures 15 m x 5 m. Contained a mixture of burnt human bones and carbonised wood mixed with grey sand, beneath which there is a layer of grey, greasy lime and a foul smelling layer of human fat containing decomposing human remains. The drill core brought to the surface pieces of skull with skin and tufts of hair still attached. At the bottom of the grave, at a depth of 4.10 m. lay a large number of unburned human bones. The path to the small gate near the north corner of the memorial area passes over the southern end of the grave. Area: 400 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 33: a small, shallow grave measuring only 9 m x 5 m x 3 m, located in the extreme north-eastern corner of the memorial site. Contained tiny fragments of burnt human bones mixed with small pieces of carbonised wood and grey sand: 120 sq m.

    The total surface of the mass graves is estimated at 21,000 cubic metres. At least a dozen graves still contain today unburnt, partially mummified or decomposing corpses. Exactly why the SS did not empty all the graves and destroy their contents is not known; they were in no hurry to leave the area as the entire SS – garrison was redistributed to other camps in the Lublin District for at least five months after the liquidation of Bełżec.

    Further investigations with Metal Detector.

    Carried out by the author, produced a miscellaneous collection of enamel kitchenware and assorted scrap metal. Further sweeps of the area located a metal door kitchen to a stove, and assorted pre-war Polish coins. The only item of interest was a (another) silver cigarette case with no inscription.

    Ramp Area

    Continued investigations at the Ramp were carried-over from the 1997 investigation. Analysing the 1940 and 1944 aerial maps the two rail tracks are clearly shown entering the death camp. These tracks were not built specifically for operations within the camp but were there because the area, on which the camp was built, had previously been a logging area pre-war. This was undoubtedly one of the main reasons why the death camp was built at this location. This evidence also confirms that the ‘Otto line’ was built subsequent to May 1940, as there is no photographic evidence to show its existence before that date.

    In the first phase of Bełżec, only a limited number of wagons (20) at a time could be accommodated because the uneven ground rises steeply at the southern end, which made any further extension of the tracks impossible. The second Ramp, constructed initially to handle the bigger transports from Kraków which commenced on 3 June, was the same length and could also only accommodate 20 wagons at a time.

    Close examination of the 1944 aerial photograph, and the ground scarring, clearly indicates this. . The Luftwaffe aerial photo taken in May 1944 shows that the spur line had been partly removed, probably when the camp was decommissioned and destroyed. The archaeologists corroborate the extent and termination of the rail tracks into the camp but came to their conclusions from a different direction.

    Examination of the 1944 aerial photographs indicates the presence of freight wagons on a siding just outside the former camp entrance. Further examination and measurement show that it was possible to accommodate 20 wagons, plus the locomotive on Ramp ‘A’ (first phase) and at least 20 wagons on the second Ramp (constructed for phase 2 in August 1942). This confirms that it was possible to accommodate at least 40 wagons inside the camp: 20 on Ramp A’, with another 20 on Ramp ‘B’, waiting while the victims on Ramp ‘A’ were being dealt with. (See sketch by former SS guard Schluch below).

    By August 1942, the handling of ‘goods’ (Jews) was a well-organised killing machine. This, I would suggest, is the reason why Bełżec in its short life span -compared with Treblinka and Sobibór managed to murder so many people: because a maximum number of wagons could be accommodated on the ramps at same time with less shunting back and forth between station and camp, as was the case in the other two death camps. Conclusions were drawn in collaboration with my colleague Michael Tregenza and mainly supported by the findings of the Kola Report:

    YOU CAN READ THE REST OF ARCHEOLOGICAL REPORT at the above link..

    There is your Evidence.

    Edgars F
    Anthropologist.

  24. “Archaeological Investigations

    A Review By Historians: Robin O’Neil, Salisbury and Michael Tregenza, Lublin.

    Acknowledgment to The Torun Team of archaeologists and the cartographer, Billy Rutherford.

    Published with the exclusive permission of the author”

    “Introduction

    The investigation carried out at Bełżec by leading archaeologists was historically unique, as no similar investigations had been carried out at the other two designated pure death camps of Sobibór and Treblinka. The magnitude of what occurred in Bełżec has never been fully described in the historical literature until now. According to previous studies, which have always been inhibited by lack of eye-witness evidence, several hundred thousand Jews perished in Bełżec. The archaeological investigations confirm by overwhelming evidence that mass murder was committed here on an unprecedented scale and that there was a determined attempt to conceal the enormity of the crime. In this the Nazis failed. The material unearthed at Bełżec not only confirmed the crime but enabled, by scientific analysis, the historians to re-construct for the first time the probable layout of the camp in the first and second phases.”

    “… The fourth investigation 1997-2000.

    The phases of this most recent investigation were directed by Professor Andrzej Kola, director of the Archaeological at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. The principal Investigating officers on site were: Dr Mieczysław Gora, Senior Curator of the Museum of Ethnology in Łódż, Poland, assisted by Dr Wojciech Szulta and Dr. Ryszard Każmierczak. Unemployed males from Bełżec village were engaged in all three investigations to assist with the labour-intensive drilling.”

    “… The total surface of the mass graves is estimated at 21,000 cubic metres. At least a dozen graves still contain today unburnt, partially mummified or decomposing corpses. Exactly why the SS did not empty all the graves and destroy their contents is not known; they were in no hurry to leave the area as the entire SS – garrison was redistributed to other camps in the Lublin District for at least five months after the liquidation of Bełżec. ”

    There is the Archeological evidence of the Holocaust.. Sir. Google the entire report. See for you’re self what the archeologists found..

  25. Continuing parts from the above Paper I posted. Lets see what Archeologists found in those pits shall we??? eh??

    “Mass Grave locations 7 – 33

    Grave pit No. 7: initially located in October 1997 is located in the vicinity of symbolic tomb No. 4 at the eastern-central part of the camp. Dimension of the grave (in a shape closely resembling a trapezoid) was determined as 13 m x 14 m., and a height of 27m.at a depth of 4. 50m. the symbolic tomb lay just to the right (south) of the grave. It contained carbonised pieces of wood and fragments of burnt human bones mixed with dark grey ash. Area: 1,600 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 8: located at the south-western part of the camp. Dimensions were determined as 28 m x 10 m x 4 m. and contained burnt pieces of human bones and fragments of carbonised wood. Area: 850 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 9: located immediately behind symbolic tomb No. 1, next to the northeast fence. Dimensions determined as 10 m x 8 m x 3, 80 m. and contained burnt human remains and pieces of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand. Area: 280 sq m.

    (Surface soil/sand in the vicinity of graves 7, 8 and 9 was grey in colour suggesting large quantities of crushed pieces of human bone).

    Grave pit No. 10: one of the biggest graves; located in the northern-central part of the camp. Dimension determined as 24 m x 18 m x 5 m. Contained a thick layer of human fat, unburned human remains, and pieces of unburned large human bones. The drill core brought to the surface several lumps of foul smelling fatty tissue still in a state of decomposition, mixed with greasy lime. Area: 2,100 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 11: located at north-eastern corner of the camp. Dimension determined as 9 m x 5 m x 1 90 m. and contained a few fragments of burnt human bones mixed with innumerable small pieces of carbonised wood. Area: 80 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 12: located immediately to the north of grave No. 10; an L-shaped grave with the foot measuring 20 m, lying to the west. The stem was 28 m in length, pointing north. A small number of pieces of unburned human bones were found at a depth of 3 m, mixed with grey sand and innumerable small fragments of carbonised wood. This layer extended to a depth of 4.40 m. Area: 400 sq m

    Grave pit No. 13: located next to the western fence. Dimensions of the grave (trapezoid in shape), was determined as 12.50 m x 11.00 m x at a height of 17 m., (?) 4.80 m. deep. Contained a mixture of burnt human remains and pieces of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand. Area: 920 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 14: the largest grave basin in the camp that extended beyond the north fence into the area of the adjacent timber yard. The section within the fence is an irregular zigzag on the south side, measuring 37 m x 10 m at its widest point east to west, and 8 m at its narrowest, and 5 m deep. It contained burnt pieces of human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey, sandy soil to a depth of 5 m. originally; grave No. 14 could have measured ca. 70 m. x 30 m. Area: 1,850 sq m.

    (According to witnesses: the first and largest mass grave [No. 14] was dug by members of the Soviet guard unit while the camp was under construction. It took six weeks to complete the task.)

    Grave pit No. 15: another small grave measuring 13.50 m x 6.50 m, with a depth of 4.50 m, was situated adjacent to the south side of grave No. 14, and containing a mixture of pieces of burnt human bones fragments of carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 400 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 16: located adjacent to grave No. 14 and immediately east of grave No. 15. Measuring 18.50 m x 9.50 m, it contained a mixture of burnt fragments of human bones and carbonised wood to a depth of 4.00 m. Area: 700 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 17: situated next to and south of graves 12 and 16, measures 17 m x 7 m 50 m x 4 m. Contained a mixture of pieces of burnt human bones, carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 500 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 18: situated next to the southern edge of grave No. 15 and measuring 16 m x 9 m x 4 m. Contained the same mixture of burnt pieces of human bones, carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 570 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 19: located within the area formed by graves 14, 15, 18 and 20, and close to the south-western corner of grave 14, measuring 12 m x 12 m and containing a mixture of grey sand, burnt pieces of human bones and carbonised wood to a depth of 4 m. Area: 500 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 20: in the form of a long trench at the western end of grave No. 14, and is the last one at the northern end of the group of 18 graves along the north fence. In the same manner as its neighbour, grave No. 14, it also extends beyond the north fence into the area of the adjacent timber yard. The section within the fence measures 26 m. x 11 m x 5 m. At a depth of 4 m. there was found a dental bridge with four false teeth. Area: 1,150 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 21: located centrally. Dimensions determined as 5 m sq and situated in the forested southern part of the memorial area, midway between graves 5 and 7. It is also unexpectedly shallow, being only 1.70 m deep and containing pieces of burnt human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand. Area: 35 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 22: located in the eastern part of the camp in the shape of an inverted ‘L’, close to grave No. 6. Measuring 27 m on the long (east) side and 10 m on the south side, containing pieces of burnt human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand to a depth of 3.50 m. Area: 200 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 23: one of the smaller graves, measuring 16 m x 8 50 m x 4 20 m and located between graves 6 and 21. Contained burnt human remains. Area: 550 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 24: a narrow trench measuring 20 m x 5 50 m x 5 m., located at the north fence and next to the eastern corner of grave No. 14. Contained burnt human remains. Area: 520 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 25: located immediately to the east of graves 12 and 14. Dimension determined as 12 m x 5 m. Contained a mixture of burnt human remains, including corpses and skeletons, to a depth of 4 m. Below this level, there was a 1 m deep layer of waxy fat and greasy lime. A foul odour was released when the drill penetrated the layer of corpses and the drill core withdrew lumps of decaying fatty tissue and large pieces of bone. Area: 250 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 26: another small grave, measuring 13 m x 7 m x 4.20 m, and located immediately next to the eastern edge of grave No. 25. Contained a mixture of burnt human remains. Area: 320 sq m.

    (Note: The soil above and around graves 25 and 26 is covered with a layer of

    innumerable small fragments of burnt human bones and small pieces of carbonised wood)

    Grave pit No. 27: measuring 18.50 m x 6 m x 6 m, and situated close to the north end of grave No. 25. Contained burnt and unburned human remain: the top layer consists of burnt human bones and carbonised wood beneath which there is a layer of grey, waxy lime. The bottom of the grave contains completely decomposed human remains mixed with putrid smelling greasy human fat. Area: 450 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 28: one of the smallest graves measuring 6 m x 6 m x 5 m, located between grave 27 and the north fence. Containing burnt human remains beneath which there is a layer of grey greasy lime. The bottom of the grave is lined with putrid smelling, greasy human fat. Area: 70 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 29: measuring 25 m x 9 m x 4.50 in the form of a long trench and located just to the north- east of grave 26; its eastern corner is immediately in front of symbolic tomb No. 1. Contained pieces of burnt human bones mixed with fragments of carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 900 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 30: located in the north angle between graves 26 and 29 and measured 5 m x 6 m. Contained pieces of burnt human bones and fragments of carbonised wood mixed with grey sand to a depth of 2 70 m. Area: 75 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 31: similar in size to grave No. 30, measuring 9 m x 4 m x 2 60 m. Situated next to the north fence between graves 28 and 29, this grave also contained a mixture of burnt pieces of human bones, fragments of carbonised wood and grey sand. Area: 90 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 32: situated close to the north corner of the memorial site between graves 9, 13, and measures 15 m x 5 m. Contained a mixture of burnt human bones and carbonised wood mixed with grey sand, beneath which there is a layer of grey, greasy lime and a foul smelling layer of human fat containing decomposing human remains. The drill core brought to the surface pieces of skull with skin and tufts of hair still attached. At the bottom of the grave, at a depth of 4.10 m. lay a large number of unburned human bones. The path to the small gate near the north corner of the memorial area passes over the southern end of the grave. Area: 400 sq m.

    Grave pit No. 33: a small, shallow grave measuring only 9 m x 5 m x 3 m, located in the extreme north-eastern corner of the memorial site. Contained tiny fragments of burnt human bones mixed with small pieces of carbonised wood and grey sand: 120 sq m.

    The total surface of the mass graves is estimated at 21,000 cubic metres. At least a dozen graves still contain today unburnt, partially mummified or decomposing corpses. Exactly why the SS did not empty all the graves and destroy their contents is not known; they were in no hurry to leave the area as the entire SS – garrison was redistributed to other camps in the Lublin District for at least five months after the liquidation of Bełżec. “

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