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German civilians from Volary attend burial services for the Jewish women exhumed from a mass grave in the town. [LCID: 24688]
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Burial services for the Jewish women exhumed from a mass grave in Volary

German civilians from Volary attend burial services for the Jewish women exhumed from a mass grave in the town. The victims died at the end of a death march from Helmbrechts, a subcamp of Flossenbürg. Germans were forced to exhume them in order to give the victims proper burial. Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945.

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