How Holocaust survivors lived in caves

** EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting an Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, between 1941 and 1943. Who is to blame for the killing of 1.5 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine? How do you define a wartime collaborator? And what can be done now to dispel age-old Ukrainian anti-Semitism, honor Jewish dead and move on? For the first time, scholars from around the world share data, documents and knowledge about the Holocaust in Ukraine, at a conference in Paris dedicated to this poorly understood passage in Hitler's torrent of continent-wide terror. (AP Photo/USHMM/Courtesy of the Library of Congress) EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MAGAZINES OUT - NO SALES -

** EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** This photo provided by Paris' Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting an Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, between 1941 and 1943. Who is to blame for the killing of 1.5 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine? How do you define a wartime collaborator? And what can be done now to dispel age-old Ukrainian anti-Semitism, honor Jewish dead and move on? For the first time, scholars from around the world share data, documents and knowledge about the Holocaust in Ukraine, at a conference in Paris dedicated to this poorly understood passage in Hitler's torrent of continent-wide terror. (AP Photo/USHMM/Courtesy of the Library of Congress) EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MAGAZINES OUT - NO SALES -

Published Feb 26, 2014

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Kiev - In the wheat fields of Western Ukraine is a small opening in the ground.

Go through it and you’ll find over 120km of caves, a lake and a labyrinth of tunnels. Fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, a brave group of Ukrainian Jews entered this subterranean world to live for 344 days and survive the Holocaust.

American Christos Nicola went on a 20-year quest to unearth what became of the families. – Slate.com

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