[Regnum] The remains of 132 people killed and tortured by the Nazis during the occupation of Kursk during the Great Patriotic War were discovered in the city's Znamenskaya grove in Kursk.
The chairman of the Poisk center, Igor Tsukanov, said that during the past Memory Watch, the remains of 132 people were found, including five pregnant women and 46 small children.
In a conversation with RIA Novosti, the searcher explained that in total, over the years of searching, the remains of more than 3,000 people were found in Znamenskaya Grove. It was established that the Nazi invaders massively brought and buried civilians on the territory of the modern grove - some were even buried alive.
The next stage of the “Memory Watch” campaign, entitled “No Statute of Limitations,” ended in Kursk on August 11.
During the war, Kursk was occupied by the Germans from November 3, 1941 to February 8, 1943. Most of the city was destroyed, and the population was subjected to repression.
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