A British forensic archaeologist discovered evidence of mass graves at the Nazi death camp Treblinka in Poland, and this disproves claims of Holocaust revisionists who say it was merely a transit camp. Roughly 800,000 Jews were killed there in northeast Poland during World War II, but a lack of physical evidence has been used by revisionists to deny atrocities at the site. Archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls undertook the first coordinated, scientific attempt to locate the graves. Because Jewish law forbids disturbing burial sites, her team from the University of Birmingham used ground-penetrating radar.
She says history books state Treblinka was destroyed by the Nazis, but her survey shows this wasn't the case. She identified a number of buried pits of considerable size and depth - one measured 26 by 17 metres. Colls presented her findings to the authorities responsible for the memorial at Treblinka and hopes there will be further efforts to locate hidden graves from the Holocaust.
