A Holocaust-era mass grave containing the bodies of some 100 Jews killed by Romanian troops was discovered last week in a forest, according to the Cybercast News Service website.
The find in a forest near the town of Popricani -- some 350 kilometers northeast of Bucharest -- contains the bodies of men, women, and children who were shot dead in 1941, the Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania said in a statement.
Some 280,000 Jews were killed during the pro-fascist regime of dictator Marshal Ion Antonescu, who was Romanian prime minister from 1940 to 1944.
Romania today has only 6,000 Jews.
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