Jews want control of grave in Ukraine

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Source: CCTV.com | 06-08-2007 10:10

A flower is put at what Jewish leaders say is a mass grave of Jews slaughtered in Ukraine during World War II, in the village of Gvozdavka-1, Ukraine, Thursday, June 7, 2007. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Jewish community leaders in southern Ukraine urged local authorities to give them control over land where a mass grave believed to contain thousands of Holocaust victims was found.

The grave is believed to contain the remains of Jews killed during World War II.

Jewish leaders say the mass grave was found by chance last month by workers who were digging to lay gas pipelines in the village of Gvozdavka, northwest of Odessa.

Holocaust scholars say thousands of Jews were brought to the area in November 1941 and as many as 10,000 were killed. A mass grave with remains of about 3,500 Jews was found in the region last year.

Editor:Du Xiaodan