So they can plant crops and. Climate change. Right. Now if you want to. Start. A low and a warm welcome to focus on europe thanks for joining us traces of the holocaust horrors are still being on earth nearly eighty years later well this is especially true in Eastern Europe where hitlers troops murdered millions of jews soldiers and breast belarus have recently exuma the remains of jewish people murdered by the nazis more than one thousand Men Women And Children are believed to have been
executed here in one Nine Hundred Forty Two well its a history that haunts the city as its residents struggle to reconcile with the Past Today Jewish Life and bella bruce has been largely forgotten its only synagogue was turned into a Movie Theater by the soviets for decades historian irina sky has been fighting to keep the victims legacy alive she believes that the only way to heal the wounds is to commemorating documenting the atrocities in the post soviet country its proving to be a lonely pursuit.
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