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World Jewish News
Hundreds of Personal Belongings of Tortured Prisoners Found in Auschwitz Museum
02.06.2009
On the territory of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz (southern Poland), and now the Memorial Museum, hundreds of items, which used to belong to the tortured prisoners, were found.
According to the museum employees, in the course of renewal works near the crematorium N3 of the concentration camp, the personal belongings of the executed men were found, the correspondent of UKRINFORM reports.
"During the repair work near the crematorium, hundreds of items of daily use were found, assembled here by the SS divisions for further utilization," informed the chief of the museum's real department, Igor Bartosik. He noted that
among the objects found, inter alia, there is medicine, small presents, cosmetics, children's items, and so on. "These are the things that cause touching emotions, because they were with the prisoners until their last moments," said the Museum employee.
I. Bartosik also reported that according to characteristic inscriptions, it has been established that the items used to belong mostly to Hungarian Jews who were interned to the concentration camp during the most active phase of the
genocide, from May to July 1944.
As noted by the Polish Press Agency (PAP), Hungarian Jews were one of the largest groups of the concentration camp prisoners: during three months in 1944, about 430 thousand of them were brought to Auschwitz. Almost all of them, despite protests from the international community and world leaders of those times, were destroyed.
The German concentration camp of Auschwitz was established in 1940 and became one of the largest centers of mass genocide of Jews. It is believed that the fascists destroyed over 1.1 million people there. Besides Jews, the Poles, Gypsies and representatives many other nationalities were also executed there.
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