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January 31, 2022

From the Depths of a Death Camp, Relics of Jewish Faith

Sh’ma pendants from Sobibor.

Located in what is now eastern Poland, the Sobibor death camp—along with Treblinka and Belzec—was created by the Nazis solely for the purpose of murdering Polish Jewry as efficiently as possible. To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) publicized three items discovered on its grounds. JNS reports:

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January 31, 2022

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