By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
German authorities say excavation will begin this
week on a site suspected of holding the remains of more than 750 Jewish prisoners slain by the Nazis in the final days of the war.
Brandenburg state interior minister Joerg Schoenbohm says the search will begin Wednesday, the 64th anniversary of the liberation of the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp.
The mass grave is suspected to be on the grounds of the former Lieberose work camp, a Sachsenhausen subcamp located some 120 kilometers
southeast of Berlin.
On Feb. 2, 1945, SS guards executed some 1,200 inmates on the camp's grounds. Some remains were discovered in 1971 in a mass grave in a nearby
village but further searches were delayed for years due to a conflict with the land's former owner.
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