Prosecutors from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) have discovered three mass graves at the railway station Stradom in the southern city of Czestochowa.

The remains probably belong to World War II victims – Polish soldiers who fought in 1939, Russian and German war prisoners, Jewish concentration camp victims, Warsaw Rising insurgents, who died while being transported. This explains why the graves are located next to railway tracks.

Remains of eight people have been exhumed so far, but IPN workers expect that even 2,000 people might have been buried near the railway station Czestochowa-Stradom. In spring, further exhumations will take place. (mg/mmj)