The mayor’s office in the Belarus city of Brest has confirmed to Deutsche Welle that building work on a modern apartment complex will resume this week on he site of a Nazi-era grave containing the remains of nearly 2,000 Jews which was discovered two months ago.
Soldiers have exhumed the remains of more than 1,900 residents of the 1941 ghetto since the discovery. Alla Kondak, who heads the cultural department at the mayor’s office, pointed out that many of the buildings in the city are built on graves.