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Poland - Several hundred personal items and objects of everyday use belonging to Holocaust victims at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have been discovered.
The discovery was made during conservation work near Crematorium No. 3. The find includes medication, jewels, cosmetics, family mementoes, toys, baby bottles and dummies. Many of them have inscriptions in Hungarian as all the objects belonged to Hungarian Jews, who were brought to Auschwitz and killed there between May and July 1944.
A total of 430, 000 Hungarian Jews were brought to Auschwitz during that period and most of them were exterminated by the Germans.
A spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum said that all the newly-found objects will undergo conservation in the museum’s workshops and some of them will then be put on display in a new exhibition, currently in preparation.
Around 1.1 million people died at the Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz, including one million Jews from Poland and other European countries.
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Jun 02, 2009 at 04:12 PM Anonymous Says:
Ymach shmom
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Jun 02, 2009 at 08:23 PM Perele Says:
my father holds Shavuos as yahrzeit (so do many others unfortunately) for my grandmother Perel HYD. Unthinkable.
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Jun 02, 2009 at 09:40 PM Anonymous Says:
My Grandfather's parents and most of his family were from Hungary and were Korbonos H"YD.....Baby toys, very sad....
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Jun 02, 2009 at 11:35 PM Anonymous Says:
Why don't they try to track down family members so they can return these items? G-d knows they kept good records.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 09:33 AM Anonymous Says:
#4 My thoughts exactly. They should put a list with the items so that people can claim it if it belonged to family members. It certainly doesn't deserve to be in a museum. The only problem with that is, proving that it belonged to family members, as some people might try to claim it for its historical value.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 10:35 AM Anonymous Says:
“ Why don't they try to track down family members so they can return these items? G-d knows they kept good records. ”
I agree. These momentos are all family members have left of their loved ones. What right does Poland have to profit off them by making a new exhibit for tourists. Disgusting if you ask me.