NP: There are likely thousands more unmarked Holocaust graves throughout Poland and eastern Europe, hidden on roadsides, or in forests or marshes or fields. It’s a modern misconception that the destruction of the Holocaust was confined to death camps. Millions of Jews are believed to have been shot and killed by Nazi mobile killing units and their local collaborators, buried in unmarked mass graves throughout of the eastern European countryside. It’s what Rev. Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest who is one of the most prolific searchers for unmarked Jewish graves, has called the Holocaust by Bullets. People were killed outside their houses, on the outskirts of their villages, executed on marches, burned in barns, found in their hideouts and killed by grenades.
“What we know about the murders in concentration camps is only half the knowledge of what truly took place in the Holocaust,” Avi Benlolo, president and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto, said in an email.
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