Researchers unearth link to Anne Frank at Sobibor site
JERUSALEM - Israel’s Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial says researchers excavating the remains of one of the most
notorious Nazi death camps have uncovered a pendant that appears identical to
one belonging to Anne Frank.
Yad Vashem says Sunday it has
ascertained the pendant belonged to Karoline Cohn — a Jewish girl who perished
at Sobibor and may have known the famous diarist. Like Frank, Cohn
was born in Frankfurt in 1929. Researchers are trying to confirm whether they
were related. The Israel Antiquities Authority has been conducting
excavations at the former camp in Poland since 2007 and has already uncovered
the gas chamber foundations and the original train platform.
More than 250,000 Jews were
killed in Sobibor, one of the most vivid examples of the Nazi “Final Solution”
to eradicate European Jewry.
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