THIS IS THE PRIEST I MENTIONED HEARING SPEAK RECENTLY, who heads up an organization that is searching for the killing fields. First I'm linking to an article from Sacred Heart University which mentions also the University’s Center for Christian - Jewish Understanding.
"He and his team have investigated more than 850 execution sites and mass graves in Ukraine and Belarus, and he expects their investigations will take them next into Poland and Russia. The generation of eye-witnesses is fast disappearing with most now in their 80s and above, and he recognizes that in only a few years, they will all be gone, giving renewed urgency to his task." ... Desbois said he regularly speaks with elderly people who are sharing their childhood recollections for the first time in their lives; they are anxious, at long last, to contribute to the record and let the world know what they witnessed. Children were forced to participate in preparing their neighbors for immediate death. Sometimes they would be obliged to scrape off remnants of body parts from trees so that the next round of victims would remain unaware of their impending fate. The youngsters would gather up clothes, help dig enormous graves, even collect gold teeth. Once the hundreds of men, women and children in a town had been shot to death, the children would return to their dead neighbors’ homes and take anything of value to be sold at public auction. Men’s clothes would end up in one classroom, women’s in another, household furnishings in a third."
The team that works with Father Desbois comes from various religious and not religious backgrounds and beliefs. If you or a family member know of the location of the graves, please contact his organization : http://www.yahadinunum.org/ YAHAD In UNUM.
At the talk I attended there were three holocaust survivors who spoke up and said they knew where the killing field was in their village.
