True Horrors Of Auschwitz Revealed By Prisoners Buried Letter Found At Nazi Camp
A buried letter written by Greek Jew Marcel Nadjari while he was at the Auschwitz concentration camp has recently been made legible thanks to the efforts of Russian historian Pavel Polian who spent years reconstructing the document.
The letter was first found in 1980 by a German graduate student who stumbled across it while excavating areas of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was found stuck in a thermos, wrapped in a leather pouch, and buried in the soil near one of the crematoriums.
In the letter, Nadjari details his time as a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sonderkommandos were male Jewish prisoners picked for their youth and relative good health whose job it was to dispose of corpses from the gas chambers or crematoria.
At Auschwitz-Birkenau, these men were also tasked with greeting the arrivals to the camp, directing them to the showers where they would be gassed and removing clothes, valuables, and gold teeth from their bodies after they were killed.
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