Thousands of personal items belonging to Jews murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz have been recovered, decades after being stored away and forgotten in cardboard boxes.
The 16,000 long-lost objects, which include jewellery, watches, brushes, tobacco pipes, lighters, fragments of kitchenware, buttons, Pocketknives and keys, were first discovered in 1967 by archeologists excavating the ruins of the extermination camp's gas chamber and crematorium III.
They were then put into 48 cardboard boxes and stored at the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Polish capital Warsaw, where they remained forgotten for over 50 years.
But now after months of searching, staff at the former Nazi death camp have finally managed to track them down.
Auschwitz museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki told MailOnline: 'There is almost no personal information on the objects, yet the fact that they were found near the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III indicates that they belonged to Jews murdered by the German Nazi in the gas chambers.
'These people were told that they were being resettled and they took their personal belongings with them.
'The items found were most probably things which they had in their pockets when they were entering the undressing room of the gas chamber.
'There are some Hungarian, some Hebrew and Polish inscriptions found on some of the objects.'
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