Poles pray for martyr dead at Lublin.

Poles pray for martyr dead at Lublin. The liberation of Lublin in Poland Army on July 24, 1944 revealed a huge concentration camp where the Germab carried out atrocities and executions on an unprecedented scale Russian journalists who visited the camp said that it occupied an area of almost 20 square miles (52 square kilimeters) and numbered its victims in the hundreds of thousands. Cremation ovens where the German burned the bodies of those whom they tortured to death were seized intact. Victims of the exterminaton camp included Poles, Jews of all nationalities, Frenchmen, Greeks, Dutch, Italians, Belgians, Yugoslavians, Hungarians and Spaniards of anti-Nazi sympathies. Prayers for the dead continued for hours under the hot sun as 25,000 persons mourned in the great squre in Lublin in August 6, 1944 for Polish victims who died in the German extermination camp there.