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World Jewish News
Workers Find Bottle With "Message from Hell"
30.04.2009
The workers who were breaking the wall of a school building which once belonged to former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, found a letter hidden in a bottle. It was written by the prisoners 65 years ago. The message from seven prisoners of Auschwitz - one of the largest Nazi concentration camps in occupied Poland - is written in pencil on the label from a bag of cement.
The note was placed in a glass bottle. The bottle with the note was immured in the cement slurry, which fastened the masonry walls of the building, which during the war served the Nazi guards as a warehouse.
The message is dated September 20, 1944. It reports the names of the prisoners - six Poles, and one Frenchman, their identity numbers and place - Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim. "All between the ages of 18
to 20," reads the note, which will now be transferred to the Museum of the prisoners of the concentration camp.
As reported by the Svoboda radio station, at the moment the find remains at the school s management. "The bottle was immured in the wall of the building, which is now our school, 65 years ago. Next week we will pass the find into the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau," stated the representative of the school Monica Barto.
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