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Secret Auschwitz Letter Found

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  1. GRW

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    Remarkable find.
    "Thirteen pages of notes written by an Auschwitz inmate forced to help Nazi murder squads during World War II have finally been deciphered, 37 years after being buried on the grounds of the death camp.
    Marcel Nadjari, a Greek Jew, described in his notes how thousands were being taken 'packed like sardines' to gas chambers daily.
    At 26 years old, he was one of 2,200 members of Sonderkommando, a group of Jewish prisoners forced to escort fellow Jews to the chambers and aid with the disposal of their bodies.
    Nadjari penned an account of his time the infamous death camp in 1944 and stuffed the 13-page manuscript into a Thermos flask, which he then buried near Crematorium III.
    Now, 73 years later, the notes have finally been decoded thanks to digital imaging.
    'Often I thought of going in with the others, to put an end to this. But always revenge prevented me doing so. I wanted and want to live, to avenge the death of Dad, Mum and my dear little sister,' he wrote in his notes.
    He had heard from fellow Jews that his mother, father and sister Nellie had all died at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, in Nazi-occupied southern Poland.
    In his manuscript, Nadjari explained the horrors of leading fellow prisoners to the gas chambers every day."
    Auschwitz prisoner's 13-page message has been deciphered | Daily Mail Online
     
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