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The burial place of civilians, the World War 2 Finnish occupier victims, was found. The discovery was made by search groups in Karelia, Russia RIA Novosti reports.
According to the head of the Olonets Operational Group Oleg Levashov, the work is being carried out within the framework of the “No time limit" project. He noted that the remains of ttwo probably female bodies were brought to the surface. One of them was around 16 years old, and was shot in the head.
The archive documents indicate the burial place is located at the crossroads; three concentration camps were reachable from that location. All of them were in the Olonets district.
Finnish soldiers occupied Karelia in October 1941 and organized there several dozen concentration camps. One of them was located near the village of Ilyinskoye. There were about 24 thousand people in concentration camps, which is about a third of the population of the occupation zone of the Karelo-Finnish Republic. The camps contained mainly Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. The total number of victims exceeds 8 thousand people.
A year ago, an organization of juvenile prisoners from Belarus have requested Olonets district administration to immortalize the memory of 88 Belarusians who died in Finnish concentration camps. Their names were established during the study of archival documents, and on the basis of eyewitness accounts.
Russkiy Mir
