army camp. According to interviews conducted by a Roman Catholic priest, Father Patrick Desbois, some of the bodies were decapitated. One woman described how her mother would "finish off" wounded Jews with a shovel blow to the head before burying them. A monument in Memory of the Holocaust victims was built at Piotrovsky Yar in 1996.
On September, 19, 2012 the monument was desecrated, in what seems to be an anti-Semitic
