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The Times of Israel: Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust victims uncovered in 2 basements in Ukraine

Published July 28, 2020. Updated July 28 at 1:53 am

People lay flowers on Sept. 29, 2017 at the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial in Kyiv in honor of the tens of thousands of Jews who were murdered under German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s tyrannical rule during WorldWar II.

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The remains of 286 Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust were found in two basements in a town in southwest Ukraine. The remains, mostly women and children, will be buried in a mass grave in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, the Ynet news site reported.