New objects hidden by deportees have been discovered in the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, during restoration work undertaken by Austria for its new national exhibition.
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On April 21, " we found spoons, knives, forks, parts of shoes " hidden in a chimney flue of block 17, detailed Tuesday the AFP secretary general of the Austrian National Fund for victims of the Nazism Hannah Lessing. " These utensils kept out of sight of the SS may have been used by shoemakers, to prepare an escape or simply to be able to eat, " said Hannah Lessing. She said that she had entrusted them to the conservation center of the Auschwitz museum, so that they could give an account of life in the camp, of which entire sections remain unknown, despite the objects discovered on the spot in recent decades.
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Austria is currently carrying out restoration work in this large two-storey brick barrack, which has housed its permanent exhibition on the ground floor since 1978, which will be completely remodeled by 2021. The former German camp Nazi concentration and extermination of Auschwitz-Birkenau, created to implement the policy of " final solution " aimed at the mass extermination of European Jews, has been the subject of a classification by Unesco since 1979. It has housed a museum since 1947 and exhibits from different countries involved in the conflict.
