Entire sections of the camp remain unknown. Objects concealed by deportees were discovered in the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, during restoration work undertaken by Austria for its new national exhibition.
On April 21, "we found spoons, knives, forks, parts of shoes" hidden in a chimney flue of block 17, detailed this Tuesday the secretary general of the Austrian National Fund for victims of Nazism, Hannah Lessing. “These utensils kept out of the sight of the SS were perhaps used by shoemakers, to prepare an escape or simply to be able to eat. "
A permanent exhibition
The objects have been entrusted to the conservation center of the Auschwitz museum, so that they can give an account of life in the camp. Austria is currently carrying out restoration work in this large two-storey brick barrack, which has housed its permanent exhibition on the ground floor since 1978, which will be completely remodeled by 2021.
The former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, created by the Nazis to implement the policy of "final solution" aimed at the mass extermination of European Jews, is the subject of a Unesco classification since 1979. It has housed a museum since 1947 and exhibitions from different countries involved in the conflict.
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