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Then, in November 2019, the DPAA exhumed the remains and sent them to a lab for analysis.
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Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Researchers exhumed the fossils yet again after the end of the war, but this time transported them into safekeeping at Urwelt-Museum Hauff in the nearby town of Holzmaden.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2025
These were Jews and Russian prisoners of war who were forced by Nazi SS officers to do something unimaginably grotesque and inhumane: exhume the more than 70,000 corpses buried in mass graves in a forest named Ponar outside Vilnius, Lithuania.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Researchers exhumed the fossils yet again after the end of the war, but this time transported them into safekeeping at Urwelt-Museum Hauff in the nearby town of Holzmaden.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Feb. 2025
These were Jews and Russian prisoners of war who were forced by Nazi SS officers to do something unimaginably grotesque and inhumane: exhume the more than 70,000 corpses buried in mass graves in a forest named Ponar outside Vilnius, Lithuania.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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