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Researchers Uncover Long-Lost Tunnel Used By Jews To Escape Extermination Pits

This is where the Burning Brigade was housed. The apparatus in the middle is not the original, but ones like it were used as ramps so that the bodies could be stacked high and set alight. All the pits at Ponar were originally dug by the Russians to store fuel. (Ezra Wolfinger for Nova)
This is where the Burning Brigade was housed. The apparatus in the middle is not the original, but ones like it were used as ramps so that the bodies could be stacked high and set alight. All the pits at Ponar were originally dug by the Russians to store fuel. (Ezra Wolfinger for Nova)

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