The remains of 29 Polish Army soldiers and seven German servicemen who were killed in the autumn of 1939 have been exhumed at the Holosko Cemetery in Lviv during an exhumation and search operation conducted by a team of Ukrainian and Polish specialists.
Lubomyr Horbach, Head of the Pamiat (Memory) Society for Searching for War Victims, told Ukrinform.
“We are continuing work on the graves located in the first and second rows. As of today, September 4, we have managed to exhume the remains of 29 Polish Army soldiers and, as we reported earlier, the remains of seven soldiers from the 1st Mountain Division of the German Wehrmacht,” Horbach said.
According to him, search teams initially use machinery to remove the top layer of soil from the grave pit and then work by hand, carefully clearing the remains of soil. The remains are then photographed before the bones are recovered and the soil is examined for personal belongings, buttons and other items.
During the exhumation at the Holosko Cemetery, the team found a military identification tag belonging to a Polish soldier and three belonging to German servicemen, uniform buttons bearing the Polish coat of arms, various fasteners, hooks and rings characteristic of Polish military equipment, as well as a Catholic rosary and a small mirror.
