Auschwitz Museum Discovers Holocaust Jewelry Hidden In Artifact
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OSWIECIM, Poland (CBSMiami) -- Museum staff in Poland have uncovered jewelry hidden for 70 years at the bottom of an enamel mug believed to have once belonged to a victim of the Holocaust.
A gold ring and necklace were found hidden beneath a fake 'double' bottom inside the mug after maintenance work was being done on the collection of kitchen ware, according to Auschwitz Museum director Dr. Piotr Cywinski.
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He said the items were most likely hidden in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland before their owner was taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Tests concluded the jewelry was made between 1921 in 1931 in Poland.
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