A grave holding the remains of hundreds of Jews, many of them children, killed in World War II has been found in a forest outside Lvov in Ukraine. The discovery was made last week by a delegation sponsored by the Jewish Congress and the Holocaust Museum in Paris and Washington. The effort is part of a mission called “Kaddish for Ukraine’s Jews” massacred during the war, reports Ynetnews.com.

The delegation plans to inspect and excavate about 500 sites, identified with the help of priests and elderly residents in Ukraine.

Prior to World War II, about 110,000 Jews lived in Lvov, among the first cities to be hit by the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

“Hundreds of skulls and bare skeletons were counted in the grave site,” said a member of the team.

Ukraine has agreed to designate the area as a Jewish burial site.

The director of the Paris Holocaust Museum said the discovery will help find the names of others so “they will not be left with no identity.”
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