In 2014, one of the Polish concentration camps suffered the theft of objects of great historical value.
In the old Nazi concentration camp Majdanek 78,000 prisoners were executed, of them 60,000 Jewsmurdered in the gas chambers, or died of hunger, disease or exhaustion in forced labor. Furthermore, according to the recorded data, 150,000 people they would have passed by this place, It operated during World War II between 1941 and 1944.
Now there is a museum there, which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. In that space they showed 56,000 of the 280,000 shoes preserved from that time. However, in 2014an unusual heist put the Polish police on alert.
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The authorities began the search for eight shoes of jewish prisonerswhich disappeared from the room where they were exhibited and were presumed to have been stolen.
What was the robbery of the Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek like?
“The disappearance was discovered on a museum employee’s regular rounds last Saturday. The metal wire rack containing hundreds of shoes in barracks number 52 was cut“said museum spokesperson Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Nowak.
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When they did the math, they noticed that eight were missing. On the other hand, the Polish police believed that the robbery may have taken place between November 18 and 20date on which the employee had discovered the theft.
“We do not know the reasons for this theft, but It is a significant loss for the museum. “These objects have great historical value,” Kowalczyk-Nowak lamented. And the fact is that this sample served to illustrate the horror experienced by the victims of the Holocaust and the magnitude of the event.
The background
The robbery occurred only ten months after the disappearance of the gate of the Nazi Dachau concentration camp. Also, during that time, a prisoner’s cap had been returned to the museum from the one that was stolen 20 years ago from the robbery in Majdanek. It was withdrawn at an auction in the United States, and had been put up for sale on eBay with a starting price of $1,750.
Another precedent that was added to the list was that of December 2012when Carl Michael von Hausswolff had exhibited in a gallery in Lund, Sweden, a painted watercolor. According to him, it had ashes stolen in 1989 during a visit to the Majdanek campdiluted in water.
Source: Ambito
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