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This article is from the Holocaust FAQ, by Ken McVay kmcvay@nizkor.org with numerous contributions by others.

57 If so many people were actually killed and cremated, where is all the ash? (Holocaust: Leuchter)

After a person is cremated, quite a small amount of ash remains - it
fits in a small urn, or a box. This means that ashes of thousands of
people fit into one truck. The ash was either scattered around in
fields, buried, or - in Auschwitz, for instance - dumped into a
river.

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