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Moldovans to dig up grave

March 3, 2016 10:27
The stone that marks the Marianca de Sus burial site
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Volunteers in Moldova are getting ready to dig up a grave that is rumoured to contain the bodies of Jews murdered during the Second World War.

The Moldovan community group August - whose members normally search for the remains of Soviet soldiers - will, for the first time, excavate a civilian massacre site, said Vasilii Senicovschii, the leader of the organisation.

The site, located in the village of Marianca de Sus about an hour and a half from the Moldovan capital of Chisinau, is in a wheat field and marked by a single stone. The villagers say that Jews were buried there, although there may also be the remains of the residents of a Christian nursing home.

The site came to the attention of the public after church officials in the Moldovan capital found a newspaper article from the summer of 1941, which suggested that about 100 residents from its nursing home were sent to Marianca de Sus.