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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/middleeast/20holocaust.html
The Untold Stories of the Holocaust
[New York Times] Ethan Bronner - In the Ukrainian town of Berdichev, Jewish women were forced to swim across a wide river until they drowned. In Telsiai, Lithuania, children were thrown alive into pits filled with their murdered parents. In Liozno, Belarus, Jews were herded into a locked barn where many froze to death. People know of Auschwitz, but little has been known about the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of smaller killing fields across the former Soviet Union where some 1.5 million Jews met their deaths. Over the past few years, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and research center in Israel has been investigating those sites, and the work, gathered under the title "The Untold Stories," is now being made public on the Yad Vashem website.