Genetic and phylogeographic evidence for Jewish Holocaust victims at the Sobibór death camp

Autor: Marta Diepenbroek, Christina Amory, Harald Niederstätter, Bettina Zimmermann, Maria Szargut, Grażyna Zielińska, Arne Dür, Iwona Teul, Wojciech Mazurek, Krzysztof Persak, Andrzej Ossowski, Walther Parson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Genome Biology, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1474-760X
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02420-0
Popis: Abstract Six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. Archaeological excavations in the area of the death camp in Sobibór, Poland, revealed ten sets of human skeletal remains presumptively assigned to Polish victims of the totalitarian regimes. However, their genetic analyses indicate that the remains are of Ashkenazi Jews murdered as part of the mass extermination of European Jews by the Nazi regime and not of otherwise hypothesised non-Jewish partisan combatants. In accordance with traditional Jewish rite, the remains were reburied in the presence of a Rabbi at the place of their discovery.
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