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A GOLD RING and necklace hidden by an Auschwitz prisoner in a false-bottomed mug for fear of looting by German Nazis has been discovered at site of the death camp, the Auschwitz museum said Thursday.
More than 70 years after the liberation of the World War II camp in occupied Poland, staff discovered the jewellery in a rusting enamel mug, one of thousands of pieces of kitchenware now on display at the museum.
“Such discoveries do take place but this one is unique because of how the jewellery was hidden,” museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki told AFP.
We haven’t checked all the thousands of (pieces of) kitchenware… but we managed to find the valuables because the material was slowly degrading and the false bottom separated itself from the original mug.
The necklace was found wrapped in a scrap of canvas along with the women’s ring.
Sawicki said it was impossible to identify the owner other than it was “someone who believed in the lie told by the German Nazis when they were deporting people to Auschwitz”.
Valuables
Many inmates brought along their valuables to Auschwitz because the Nazis promised them resettlement and new lives, but the personal items of arriving prisoners were then plundered before they were sent to their deaths.
“We can see the fear of the person because they hid the jewellery. It means that they knew about the robbery,” Sawicki said.
But in a way we also see the hope that the person had (for their survival).
Over years, museum staff have found a wide assortment of items, from “a tiny button, a fork, cutlery, pieces of glass, bottles”, he said.
One million European Jews died between 1940 and 1945 at the Auschwitz camp in the southern city of Oswiecim.
More than 100,000 other people including non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and anti-Nazi resistance fighters also died there, according to the museum.
A record 1.72 million people visited the site in 2015, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by the Soviets.
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Horrific period in mans history. Separating families for execution or labour. Poor children dragged from there parents never to see them again. Shame on mankind.
Some of mankind! Others were trying to help. Without the war goodness knows what would be going in now!
Ah my apologies. I didn’t think I’d need to elaborate. Forgot about stupid people who need to constantly unnecessarily correct people.
I visited Auchwitz and Birkenau, they are grim places well worth a visit. But more than Jews dies there, it included left wing opponents of the Nazi’s, Roma, homosexuals and there groups tend to be overshadowed by the Jewish death which were of course far greater. We cant change the past, put when one looked at the middle east today very little has changed and the future is looking equally bleak.
Duty devil , the piles of bodies and the British soldiers in the German (don’t know it’s name) camp is just made up, and the local Germans were not made to help dispose of some of the corpses!!
So where is the non-anecdotal evidence then Fiona?
What has been debunked? By whom?
Incidentally I have only been stating facts, I haven’t denied anything.
Bill have you not looked into it then no?
Durty…Natzweiler,Dachau,Neunegamme,Mauthausen,Bergen-Belsen…..ALL the Action Reinhardt camps were in Poland..these were the industrial extermination facilities – Maidanek,Treblinka,Auschwitz etc.
Bill..Bergen – Belsen.
In 10,000 years from now they’ll be finding stuff from ww2 I’d imagine.
At the rate we are going there won’t be a planet in 10,000 years
Ah Mick there will. Maybe there won’t be people but the planet will be around a long time.
That is ridiculous lads, in 10000 years people will still be going to work, bringing their dogs to the beach and thinking about the future just like we are.
There are still parts of France too dangerous for people since ww1. And will remain so for quite some time. Unexplored ordinance and poisoned ground from the gasses.
Verdun.
Absolutely Verdun. Anyone who isn’t familiar should google the pictures of the battlefield alone. Ww1 was horrific. Meat grinders.
There will be a planet. Mother Nature has dealt with bigger catastrophes than mans fiddling. When we are long gone the planet will be flourishing.
Been there…the ultimate battlefield…you step back in time..left exactly as it was..
Well hopefully by then the dog owners will pick up their doggies cigars.
As Israel commences knocking seven shades out of Gaza yet again and continues summarily executing civilians in Gaza yet another holocaust story pops up ….. surprise surprise
@ Dafuq. … I have some tinfoil here for you, make sure you don’t walk under the contrails or the lizard men will get you!
Lizard men my hole…… however there is some fairly compelling research that proves the chemtrail theory. When you research it yourself you might understand it .The science behind it isn’t that complicated
2,500 aircraft pass over Ireland everyday at different altitudes. They may now and again leave funny shaped trails in the sky……but it’s just the movement of people and cargo.
What a poignant story this is. Makes me think of all the human suffering the Nazis caused. So sad.
Jew-Hatred hasn’t gone away. Jew-Hatred is like a perversion in that It affects everything related and unrelated.In effect it controls the mind of the person more than he/she controls their own mind. It makes them twist everything to feed the hatred. As for the Nazis,it is said they devoted more resources to rounding up and killing Jews at near the end of the war than to the armies defence of Germany on the East front. That’s what hatred does.
Interesting article in Gatestone link below by J. P. Golbert US lawyer
July 15, 2015 at 5:00 am
—–”Historians raised serious objections to Hitler’s War Against the Jews 1933-1945 by Lucy Dawidowicz, because the name implies that the destruction of the Jews was Hitler’s primary goal and not an incidental secondary aspect of the war. Academicians cannot accord the Jews that much importance. They have to point out that others died in the gas chambers, not only Jews but also Gypsies, genetically defective persons, homosexuals, trade unionists, Communists and others, designated as degenerates. Indeed they did, but the Jews were truly a special case, targeted with special attention. The Holocaust was the highly extraordinary case of an entire nation mobilized to the systematic, meticulously planned, industrialized mass murder of an entire people, down to the last baby. It entailed the commitment of massive resources to locate every Jew in every neighborhood of every city and every town and village under German occupation, round them up, and either kill them on the spot or transport them from all over Europe and North Africa to Poland to be murdered en masse, and finally to dispose of the corpses. The resources devoted to the annihilation of the Jews were the equivalent of a third front.—–”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6168/jews-canary-coal-mine
Patrick…completely true…see Christopher Browning (police battalion 101) and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen further incontrovertable evidence that EVERY German knew about extermination and the colossal scale of the efforts…
@Durty Divil……What friction did they cause in Ireland,Canada,US,Aus.,NZ UK,etc.. The ones causing the friction are the the resurgent Nazis and Nazi sympathizers and apologists and Holocaust deniers across Europe. And ,of course the Islamo-Fascists who make no secret of their religiously inspired determination to genocide the Jews-everywhere,-just like the Nazis.
Read the link in my post to the article by US lawyer J.P. Golbert. if you are interested in the truth of the origin of Jew-Hatred.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6168/jews-canary-coal-mine
@Peter Fechter…..Very true Peter. And as one who worked on the railroad in my younger days I cannot imagine how 6,000,000 screaming persons banging on the doors could be transported day and night in box-cars to the gas chambers through the towns and villages in Nazi controlled Europe without people knowing what was going on.
Holocaust denier and nazi sympathizers what a fantastic word to kill any historical debste. Us lawyers ?? Isn’t that the same country that murdered millions of natives ???
Remarkable that after all the eye witnesses, books and study, people still think that the holocaust never happened.. Truly depressing. Read lager kommandant hoss’s reflections, written while he awaiting execution.. Kneeing infants in to the gas chambers, ss men grabbing babies by the legs and smashing their heads against train wheels. Get back to me with ‘whataboutery’ after that..
Patrick…i think Adolf Eichmann exemplified the 3rd reichs blind determination to kill every last jew and part jew with his rounding up of the Hungarian Jews and their rapid transport to Auschwitz where they were almost immediately exterminated.
Gordon…Rudolf Hoess….condemned by his diary…it took 3 filmed attempts to hang him..those who deny the Shoah/Holocaust are making a conscious decision to do so for their own reasons…the evidence is overwhelming and if people decide to remain in denial then i certainly wont try to convert them.
@Peter Fechter…….Very True Peter.. As for Eichmann, he had great encouragement from Palestinian leader the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Ami Al Husseini who was his constant companion throughout the killing years.Al Hussein was recorded at Nurnberg as being responsible for the murder of 400,000 Jews in Auswitz and other death camps. He escaped from Europe to Egypt and avoided execution at Nurnberg.Al-Hussein was the uncle of Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat.
——”As the war progressed, Husseini escalated his attempts to influence those in command in the Nazi hierarchy to exterminate Jews in ever growing numbers. On a visit to Auschwitz, he was said to have urged the German guards to work more diligently in exterminating the Jews. In a document presented to the United Nations in 1947, Husseini’s correspondence with the Hungarian Foreign Minister was made public requesting the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Poland. The document contained the following notation: “As a sequel to this request 400,000 Jews were subsequently killed.” Dieter Wisliceny, Adolf Eichmann’s deputy, testified during his trial in Nuremberg that Husseini was “one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan….He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures.”
There is speculation as to how great Husseini’s influence was on Nazi efforts to eradicate the Jewish “problem.” Historians do know that two months before the Wansee Conference, Husseini wrote in his diary “I am resolved to find a solution for the Jewish problem, progressing step by step without cessation. With regard to this I am making the necessary and right appeal, first to all the European countries and then to countries outside of Europe.”
In his own memoirs, published before he died, Husseini wrote that “Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of the Jews. The answer I got was” ‘The Jews are yours.—-’”
https://cjhsla.org/2014/12/08/haj-amin-al-husseini-and-nazi-racial-policies-in-the-arab-world/
@Patrick the Canadian I never met a Jew hater in my life but have bumped into countless Israeli haters because of their dispicable treatment of the Palestinians
“The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit [to Gotha] deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to “propaganda.””
Eisenhower.
@Dave Meagher Are you trying to make out that there is some kind of legitimacy to denial of fact? The deniers you hold so dear have less credibility than the loons of the Flat/Hollow Earth Societies or Moon landing deniers. There are no words that can kill honest historical debate your contention is just silly. Maybe you could learn to discern the difference between history and pseudo history.
Rudolf Höss was battered for 3 days by British Interrogators before he signed that confession in English, a language he didn’t understand.
There was no Holocaust. There were no Nazi Homicidal Gas Chambers. The Nazis used Zyklone B to kill body lice and prevent Typhus. Check out David Cole’s Auschwitz Documentary on YouTube
You should check out the documentary on Eisenhower’s Death Camps on YouTube. The man was a sadist who starved a million Germans to death.
Kommandant Hoess daughter accepts his guilt…but you dont?And he didnt deny his diary..or his guilt…
At Remagen?
Repeating the lies of your fellow extremists counts for nothing Dermot. The spurious claim of Other Losses never added up http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1266
If you rely on youtube videos for ‘the truth’ you’re beyond help….
Eichmann’s testimony was a Scientific Impossibility. He said that the Nazis gassed a million Jews at Treblinka using the exhaust fumes from a Captured Russian Diesel Tank Engine.
You can’t kill people with diesel exhaust fumes.
Eichmann was an administrator, your opinion of his testimony is moot, you are clearly clueless on the historical context of The Second World War http://www.nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial/diesel-01.html
You go Steo……
Pres…google Walter Rauff…..
Old news.
Oh dear God, not the ‘Holocaust’ again. Let’s go over this again.
There were two types of location in Auschwitz where deadly Zyklon B cyanide was used: the fumigation chambers where clothes and bedding was placed so that lice and fleas could be killed in order to stop the spread of typhus among the prisoners and staff, and the alleged homicidal gas chambers used to kill Jews.
Now samples of brick and plaster taken from the fumigation chambers used to disinfect clothing show large amounts of cyanide. As indeed they should, as large amounts of Zyklon B was used in them.
However, samples of brick and plaster, taken from the alleged homicidal gas chambers show no traces of cyanide at all. Which is very strange, as murdering over one million Jews by Zyklon B should have left very large traces indeed.
There have been several tests conducted over the years which all verify the complete absence of any traces of the deadly cyanide in the gas chambers of Auschwitz., for example by the chemist Germar Rudolf.
The conclusion is unmistakable.
If there are no traces of cyanide in the gas chambers, then no gassing took place there. No gassing, no holocaust.
Now Germar Rudolf was convicted of holocaust denial after publishing his findings that no traces of cyanide
existed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.. Apparently conducting normal scientific research is now classed as anti-Semitic. Maybe cyanide itself should be classed as anti-Semitic as well because it refused to confirm the official narrative. In fact the whole hysterical need to suppress open discussion of the ‘Holocaust’ has gotten so ridiculous that if they started putting chemical compounds on trial for holocaust denial I wouldn’t be surprised.
Yes, hundreds of thousands of Jews died between 1939 and 1945. Jews died in pogroms in the Baltic states. They died of malnutrition, overwork, and executions in concentration camps, ghettos, and died in trains moving them about from place to place. Many were shot in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union in 1942. Even Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich propaganda minister admits these facts in his 18 volumes of wartime diaries.
But no one was gassed at Auschwitz..
And in other news, Today it has been revealed that the Earth is Flat.
Oh Dear …… Not another Jew loving denier showing total ignorance of 20th century history 1900-1999 and pedalling the lies of modern day extremist liars and silly conspiracy.
Its very strange that deniers never come up with an explanation for all the other victims of the Third Reich, they have a strange fixation with one particular religious group (6 million Jews). There were approx 12 million victims of the racist policies of the Third Reich but strangely deniers never mention the other 6 million. How come it was possible for the Reich to kill about another six million people who fell into the following classifications ; German children and adults with special needs, Jehovah’s, Masons, Communists, Homosexuals, Russian POWs, Poles, Slovaks, Czechs, Serbs, Ukrainians, Slavs, Roma, Sinti, Spanish Republicans and anyone else who didn’t suit their purposes. These were also people who were killed by gassing, hanging, shooting, starvation, just in the same way as the other group yet the deniers totally ignore them.
An excellent article and site on the denier claims for anyone interested https://sites.google.com/site/thedenyinghistoryproject/chemistry-is-not-the-science
A little insight Fake Judaism i.e Zionism http://www.truetorahjews.org/mission
Discussions on any ww2 Holocaust should be banned until such time as Palestine is free from the oppressor that is zionism. Every time Palestinians are getting hammered by the IOF, we get reminded as to why isrealhell thinks it’s ok to be doing it, never again eh.
@Richard Brady ………Discussions on the Holocaust ought be encouraged and broadened to include the ones that got away,esp. the Palestinian Arabs like Haj Amin Al Husseini who was responsible for the murder of over 400,000 Jewish men,women and children in Germany’s gas chambers.
The only thing bogus here is you Dermot
Could be anyones really as those death camps killed over 6 million Jews and over 10 million none Jews under about 25 categories of people from Catholic, Communist, Gay, Skin colour, political etc etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims
Trawniki…pronounced TraVniki…training camp for Ukrainian volunteer concentration camp guards…in western Ukraine.
There are 18 countries where you are jailed if you publicly question the Bogus, Parasitic Holocaust Religion.
If it happened, what have they got to hide ?
The BBC have churned out Holocaust Propaganda for 70 years, anytime a Historical Revisionist rips it apart, they resort to copyright law to censor it.
Here are 20 victories of Revisionism that prove that the Holocaust was a Hoax.
http://robertfaurisson.blogspot.ie/2011/09/victories-of-revisionism-continued.html?m=1
The only one churning out anything is you Dermot. The people you quote are not historical revisionists, they are simply liars and deniers.
Robert Faurisson, German Rudolf, Arthur Butz are all brilliant academics.
The Nazis developed a territorial solution to removes Jews from German held territory, but not an extermination solution, after Jews declared war on Germany in March 1933/
Have you read the Hoax of the Twentieth Century ?
They are not academics, not even in the remotest sense.
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