friends with Denver roots are now linked eternally through a new historical collaboration that, 5,399 miles away, is a finished product they have yet to see in-person. In the early 2000s, underneath a soccer stadium in Brest, Belarus (in Yiddish, Brisk, formerly Brest-Litovsk), a chilling discovery was made while the stadium was undergoing renovations. More than 1,200 fragments of headstones were scattered under the stadium, which was once a cemetery for victims of the Holocaust. During WW II, Nazis destroyed the original cemetery and Soviets built the stadium over the strewn headstones. Headstones, once a commemoration of life, were desecrated. The desecration meant death, all over again. “It just felt so viscerally wrong,” says Stephen Grynberg, a Denver native who is now a filmmaker in […]
Neither Nazis nor Soviets succeed in burying Jewish cemetery forever
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