Here you see what genocide means New project sets out to trace
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Debois, a French priest, has been collecting testimonies since
2001 Often desolate, in isolated fields and overgrown forests,
many sites of Second World War mass-shootings of Jews are in
danger of being forgotten. And yet locals remember what happened
in these places, and can point the way. Their memories have
formed the basis for a new mission to secure and preserve such
sites. Of the six million Jews killed, more than a million were
murdered by mass-killing units, mostly on the outskirts of towns
and cities. "A lot of the mass-graves have been ignored and
fallen into the wrong hands. At some sites, people are digging
them up," said Joe Shik, 30, a rabbinical supervisor for the
London-based Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries
in Europe. Mr Shik recently took part in a pilot project to
assess the state of several sites in Ukraine, co-ordinated by
the American Jewish Committe