Nazis selecting which Jewish prisoners would be forced to work and which would go to the gas chambers upon their arrival in Auschwitz. Many thousands of Greek Jews were sent to the concentration camp during the Holocaust. Credit: Public DomainAn astonishing story of human perseverance and courage in Auschwitz during the dark days of the Holocaust was restored as a testament to the crimes committed by the Nazi regime.
In 1944, Marcel Nadjari, a Greek Jew who was forced to remove bodies from the Auschwitz gas chambers, buried a letter in a forest near the camp. The text was incredibly rediscovered in 1980, but it was virtually unreadable after years of exposure to the elements.
Using a new imaging technique, scientists reconstructed the letter in 2017; it provides harrowing details of the Holocaust — and what it was like to work as a forced laborer in a Nazi extermination camp.
