polish forensic scientists joined counterparts in identifying the bodies many of the personal items and papers that once belonged to the dead prisoners were later taken to an. institute of forensic studies for further examination this job helps me to realize many things when i study all these items glosses lighters cigarette cases i imagine how they lived wrote letters misty play dice and smoke cigarettes each item reminds of a real person and i start to understand what life in the camp was like. there is a memorial museum in the forest it features documents and accounts of the poles buried here and also of the soviets who died during stalin's reign of terror the death penalty was handed down to more than five thousand people in the callinan region their graves were found side by side with those of polish prisoners. it's impossible to identify the bodies of soviet prisoners soviet victims of oppressions were taken to the burial place in underwear or stark naked later in a bid to cover up their tracks and used a special acid and line to dissolve human remains in the soil. several times a year activists from the med name a memorial complex in northwest russia go on an expedition through v