The project began on August 25 and was carried out in partnership with Ukrainian company Ukrainska Pamiat, with support from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Polish Consulate General in Lviv and the Wrocław Medical University in southwestern Poland.
Workers uncovered an area of about 260 square metres and found three rows of graves near an existing memorial, the IPN said.
Around 2,900 objects were found and secured, including military buttons, helmets, bayonets, personal belongings and religious items.
The IPN said the number of remains recovered and the way they had been buried were consistent with earlier historical research and witness accounts.
The remains of 18 German soldiers were also found. They were recovered by Ukrainska Pamiat and handed over to Volksbund, the German organisation responsible for locating and burying the remains of German soldiers.
The IPN is searching for relatives of the Polish soldiers so that the remains can be identified using DNA testing.
The final stage will be the reburial of the recovered remains, the IPN said.
In September 1939, battles between the German Wehrmacht and Polish Army took place around Lviv, then Lwów in eastern Poland, including in the former village of Hołosko Wielkie. Fallen Polish soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the local cemetery.
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Source: dzieje.pl