OSWIECIM, Poland, June 9 (UPI) -- Thousands of missing personal items belonging to Holocaust victims who died at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz were discovered at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Some 16,000 items, which include jewelry, watches, thimbles and keys, had been lost since 1967, shortly after they were excavated near the camp's gas chamber and crematorium III. It wasn't until recently, after watching a documentary about the excavation, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum leaders realized the museum only had 400 items from the excavation. Museum director, Piotr M. A. Cywinski, said a months-long investigation finally uncovered the location.