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Some of the items found are believed to have been used to plan escapes from the camp.
Objects, including knives, hooks, scissors, leather pieces and shoe parts, were found in Block 17 of the concentration camp last month, reports the Austrian National Foundation for Victims of National Socialism.
In preparation for an exhibition, the foundation financed renovation and restoration work in one of the concentration camp units in Poland.
“These tools, kept secret from the SS guard, were probably used to make shoes or to prepare to escape, and perhaps simply to eat,” the foundation’s general secretary, Hannah Lessing, told AFP.
The found objects were likely hidden in the fireplace because block 17 housed manual workers.
“It is no coincidence that the fireplace was used as a shelter in the building where the chimneys were housed,” Johannes Hofmeister, construction consultant for the foundation, said in a press release. The found objects will not be part of the exhibition of the exhibition, which will open its doors in 2021, but will be delivered to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum for safekeeping.
One million European Jews died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, established in Nazi-ruled Germany in Poland in 1940, which became the largest death camp in Europe.
Also more than 100,000 died here. people of non-Jewish descent: Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and people fighting against the Nazi regime.
Periodically several objects are found scattered around the camp area and its surroundings during the renovation work.
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