Project To Bury Holocaust Victims Is Planned

(JTA) -- An international initiative to give Holocaust victims interred in mass graves a proper Jewish burial will be launched in Eastern Europe.
The Dignity Return project is being organized by Yuri Kanner, president of the Russian Jewish Congress, in cooperation with Rabbi Marc Schneier, chairman of the World Jewish Congress American Section.
The project’s mission is to bury the remains of victims of mass execution from  Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and Estonia in a manner acceptable under Jewish law.
Kanner and Schneier expect the initiative to inspire thousands of volunteers from around the world, according to a joint news release.
“It is increasingly up to those who were born after the Holocaust to preserve and protect [the victims’] stories and these sites so that Holocaust revisionists will be unable to change history, “ said Rabbi Schneier.
The founders of the Dignity Return initiative will present details of the project on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27.