Roberto:
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#47 - The MAXIMUM number of the 16 claimed / alleged / insinuated - discernable / measurable extant graves of Sobibor identified by The N.A.F.H. that you can currently prove - with the same standard of proof applied in U.S. criminal courts - that have actually been located / proven to exist in which legitimate archaeologists / forensic investigators have, via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented methodology - literally unearthed scientifically verified human remains; is no less than __?__.
And Roberto's single numeric answer is: ?
#48 - The MAXIMUM number of the 16 claimed / alleged / insinuated - discernable / measurable extant graves of Sobibor identified by The N.A.F.H. that you can currently prove - with the same standard of proof applied in U.S. criminal courts - that have actually been located / proven to exist in which legitimate archaeologists / forensic investigators have, via bona fide, verifiably honest and conclusively documented methodology - literally unearthed the remains of at least 19 people; is no less than __?__.
And Roberto's single numeric answer is: ?
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Roberto:
"Zero" ...and here is why:
a) Mass graves at Belzec and Treblinka were partially excavated after the war, and crime site investigation reports described cremation remains and other remains on site corresponding to a very large number of dead human beings, but such reports don't fulfill the "conclusively documented methodology" requirement.
b) Archaeological surveys that identified mass graves at Belzec, Sobibór and Chelmno (and also at T-II, provided that a report about a partial archaeological survey there at least as comprehensive as those existing for Belzec, Sobibór and Chelmno is published or at least made available to the scholarly community) can be reasonably assumed to fulfill the "conclusively documented methodology" requirement, but in none of these surveys were human corpses pertaining to mass extermination unearthed from mass graves, nor were human remains unearthed from mass graves (by core drilling, where that was done) quantified so as to establish what number of human beings they correspond to. So one or both of the requirements "conclusively documented methodology" or "literally unearthed the remains" will always be missing. And that's not going to change as long as influential Orthodox Jews can bar any form of invasive archaeology on religious grounds, as they did after getting upset about the "desecration" of the dead by core drilling into human remains at Belzec.
(Notice - in blue - how poor cornered and cowed Roberto is trying to structure his response with weasel-words so as to avoid answering the questions honestly. Uhmmm Roberto, do you really think nobody noticed your desperately lame attempt at obfuscaton - Yes. - or - No. - ??)
Well then Roberto, if your answers to both of the above questions are - ZERO - because kola's and Haimi's work "can [only] be reasonably assumed to fulfill the 'conclusively documented methodology' requirement" and "one or both of the requirements 'conclusively documented methodology' or 'literally unearthed the remains' will always be missing, then it begs the following questions:
Roberto, you have admitted that there are 16 graves identified in this map here:
and are numbered by The N.A.F.H. as follows:
1 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #1 / 49
2 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #2 / 50
"Memory Hill" (AKA the - "mound of ashes / remains") = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #3 / 51
3/4 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #4 / 52
5 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #5 / 53
6 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #6 / 54
7 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #7 / 55
8 (8/15) = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #8 / 56
9 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #9 / 57
10 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #10 / 58
11 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #11 / 59
12 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #12 / 60
13 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #13 / 61
14 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #14 / 62
15 (8/15) = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #15 / 63
16 = Sobibor “huge mass grave” #16 / 64
So Roberto,
Can you, based solely on the archaeological / forensic / geophysical work done at the site, (which includes, but is not limited to - any and all full excavations, partial excavations and core drillings) prove - with the same standard of proof applied in U.S. criminal courts - that Sobibor grave #1 / #1-49 currently contains human remains - Yes. - or - No. - ??
If your answer is - Yes. - then; can you, based solely on the archaeological / forensic / geophysical work done at the site, (which includes, but is not limited to - any and all full excavations, partial excavations and core drillings) prove - with the same standard of proof applied in U.S. criminal courts - that Sobibor grave #1 / #1-49 currently contains the remains of at least 19 people - Yes. - or - No. - ??
To help you with the answers Roberto, I'll include some information that you posted on your HC site:
It should be added that thoroughly documenting the contents of the mass graves is probably easier, in terms of archaeological work, than identifying the remains of the gas chamber building or other structures or objects in the camp. For in the former respect archaeologists can take advantage of the work done in 2001 by Prof. Andrzej Kola. In an article recently brought to my knowledge, written in 2001 for a bulletin of the Rada ochrony pamieci walk i meczenstwa ("Council for Protection of the Memory of Fighting and Martyrdom", a semi-official Polish entity that is in charge of memorials), Prof. Kola described the location and essential features of the mass graves, and also plotted them on two maps attached to the article. These are the maps:
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And this is an English translation of the text describing the mass graves, which I recently obtained from a Polish lady living in Portugal:
Grave no 1 is located in the north - eastern part of hectare 17, just west from the memorial to victims. The site was excavated by 27 drills. Horizontally, it measures 20 x 20 m and is up to 4.30 m deep. It was a body burning grave.
Which begs a follow-up queston:
Roberto, in how many of the 27 "drills" can you prove - with the same standard of proof applied in U.S. criminal courts - did Kola literally unearth and see with his own eyes - scientifically verified human remains?
And Roberto's single numeric answer is: ?