Researchers have made strides in unearthing artifacts that once belonged to Holocaust victims on the site of a former Nazi death camp, including a pendant that may shed new light on the early life of Anne Frank, the girl who chronicled her tragic experience in her famed diary.
Archaeologists working to dig up Sobibór, located in eastern Poland, believe they have uncovered the building where victims used to undress and get their heads shaved before being sent to gas chambers, according to a statement released Sunday by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum.
It’s been leading the charge on the excavations with the help of the Israel Antiquities Authority since 2007.
Among various items found last fall, the statement said, was a “unique pendant, probably belonging to a child from Frankfurt who was born on July 3, 1929.” The Hebrew words “Mazal Tov” are etched on one side and the Hebrew letter “ה,” which means God, is on the other along with three Stars of David.
Yad Vashem experts determined that the only other similar pendant known to exist was owned by Frank, and this one may have belonged to a girl named Karoline Cohn, who was deported to Minsk, Belarus, from Frankfurt, Germany, in 1941. Frank was also born in Frankfurt, signaling a possible connection between the two families.
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