Letter from Auschwitz

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http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80273,6545427,List_wiezniow_Auschwitz_w_butelce_odnaleziony_po_65.html
In polish.

Workers, who were demolishing building of old school in Oswiecim (Poland), found a bottle hidden in the wall. In the bottle there was a letter written during WW2. This building was part of KL Auschwitz during WW2.
The letter says:
"KL Auschwitz 20.IX.44. AA shelter for T.W.L. crew. Built by prisoners: No 121313 Jankowiak Bronisław from Poznan, 130208 Dubla Stanisław from Laskowice, Tarnow district, 131491 Jasik Jan from Radom neighbourhood, 145664 Sobczak Waclaw from Konin neighbourhood, 151090 Czekalski Karol from Lodz, 157582 Bialobrzeski Waldemar from Ostroleka, 12063 Veissid Albert from Lyon (France). All 18-20 years old".

Letter will be displayed in Auschwitz museum.

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Wow, it must have been surreal to find it...

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Here's BBC English version,


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Builders find Auschwitz message
Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners, museum officials say.
The message, written in pencil and dated 9 September 1944, bears names, camp numbers and home towns of seven young inmates from Poland and France.
At least two survived the Nazi camp, an Auschwitz museum official said.
The bottle was buried in a concrete wall in a school that prisoners had been compelled to reinforce.
The school's buildings, a few hundred metres from the camp, were used as warehouses by the Nazis, who wanted them protected against air raids.
Museum experts have checked the authenticity of the note, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Six of the prisoners were from Poland and two were from France, AP said.
"All of them are between the ages of 18 and 20," the final sentence of the note reads.
An Auschwitz museum spokesman said the authors of the note "were young people who were trying to leave some trace of their existence behind them".
The Nazis murdered some 1.1 million people - mainly European Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma (Gypsies) and others - at the former concentration camp at Auschwitz.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/8021845.stm

Published: 2009/04/27 22:58:07 GMT

© BBC MMIX

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There is a follow up (in Polish)
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,6549179,Dotarli_do_jednego_z_wiezniow_Auschwitz__ktorzy_ukryli.html

French journalists found Albert Veissid, the only French, whose name was on the list. He is 84 now and doesn't remember the fact of placing the bottle. He, however, remembers his Polish friends and the fact that they were helping each other to in the camp.

Amazing.

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There are pictures of the letter:
http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/123374,21,0,pokaz.html

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Polish postal service is a bit slow...