About 30 specialists from Ukraine and Poland have begun search and exhumation work at Holoskivske Cemetery in Lviv. The work will continue until October 2.
Liubomyr Horbach, head of the Pamiat Society for the Search for War Victims, told Ukrinform.
According to him, the Ukrainian side is represented by a team from the Pamiat Society, while the Polish team includes specialists from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance and Wroclaw Medical University. The Ukrainian and Polish teams include search experts, archaeologists and anthropologists. About 30 specialists will work at the site in total.
“Based on search operations conducted in 2010 and 2019, 110–120 individual graves of Polish Army soldiers were discovered at the cemetery. They were killed in battles against German military units that had encircled Lviv from the west and south in September 1939. The graves include Poles, Ukrainians and representatives of other nationalities who served in or were mobilized into the Polish Army,” Horbach said.
The graves are arranged in three rows. The area where the Ukrainian and Polish specialists will work measures 40 by 12 meters. Some of the graves have been flooded by groundwater, which will have to be pumped out. The teams initially plan to excavate five graves per day.
