I tried searching this but could not find an answer. I typed everything for the site of mass grave in google but nothing came up. I am either not searching right or not clicking the right sites. Forgive me if someone has asked this. I feel silly asking this... because I am sure I have missed a site with the answer.
Okay so I am watching Anne Frank on netflix and as I am, I started doing research. I never read her dairy... though I always wanted to. Anyway I keep reading she died of sickness a few days after her sister died from shock after she fell from her bunk. But, they say she and her sister were buried in an unmarked mass grave. The location is unknown.
How on Earth is this possible? There had to of been so many bodies... how does no one know where it is? Do they still not know where it is? If so... why haven't they been dug up? I don't know if people can get sick from digging up the bodies now... but they could wear protective gear. But, has this mass grave been found? If not how the hell hasn't it? It could not be far from the camp right?
"After liberation, the camp was burned in an effort to prevent further spread of disease, and Anne and Margot were buried in a mass grave at an unknown location."
It says this. I am guessing the bodies were burned too... but who ever buried those people knew... they had to of told someone also. I mean those people had families... why would no one tell anyone of this site? I understand the sickness and all but still... will they never dig up these graves and bodies for a real burial if they find them or have found them? I know they probably could not identify the bones and such... but still. I cannot find a real answer for this expect that her body was buried in a mass grave. But, where? and have they found it? and if so have they dug the it all up ?
Thank you
Being buried in a mass grave means that no one is sure who was put where, so the remains would have been unidentifiable at the time of later exhumation. She also didn't have many relatives who could just swing by and identify her, because holocaust.
I expect there were more than one mass graves, actually, as there were lots of bodies that needed attending to. So it isn't really a matter of not knowing where the graves are, but not knowing which specific grave her body went into.
Even if they knew where it was- they wouldn't dig it up, I don't think.
They've been buried there for almost 70 years, and there really isn't anything to be gained by digging them up. They wouldn't be able to identify most of the bodies, so it'd just be disruptive of their final resting place. And really, if they had saved the bodies for identification before burying, most would've still been buried unidentified. The reality of entire families being wiped out combined with the drastic changes in appearance the concentration camps caused to their victims would've rendered them mostly unrecogizable upon death, had someone from their life before the war come to claim a body.
I mean those people had families.
Had being the operative word. Lots of families were wiped out in their entirety because of the holocaust. There simply wasn't family left for many of those dead victims.