Ashes of 8,000 WWII Victims Found in 2 Poland Mass Graves

Ashes of 8,000 WWII Victims Found in 2 Poland Mass Graves
Karol Nawrocki, right, head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), stands in front of a grave as he meets the media near Działdowo, Poland, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Mikolaj Bujak/Institute of National Remembrance via AP
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WARSAW, Poland—Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by the Nazis during World War II in forest executions that the Nazis later tried to hide by incinerating the bodies and planting trees on the burial pits.

Investigators from a national historical institute marked the finding this week with speeches and wreath-laying at the site in the Bialuty Forest, 160 kilometers ( 100 miles) north of Warsaw.