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Jewish headstones have been turning up all over the city of Brest

Many have been used in house basements and some as garden paving

Hundreds were unearthed in May by diggers on a supermarket building site

UK charity The Together Plan wants them to be turned into a memorial

Over 30,000 Jews in Brest were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust

The headstones were part of a cemetery desecrated by the Soviets  

The headstones have been turning up in locations all over Brest over the past six years, with around 1,500 discovered so far
 

Residents of a Belarus town on the border with Poland made the macabre discovery that thousands of Jewish gravestones have been used to construct buildings, roads – and even garden paving.

 

The headstones have been turning up in locations all over Brest over the past six years, with around 1,500 discovered so far.  Hundreds were discovered in May during the construction of a supermarket, with headstones unearthed by diggers.