Haunting new discovery made under floorboards at Auschwitz concentration camp

Haunting new discovery made under floorboards at Auschwitz concentration camp

An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/haunting-discovery-made-under-floorboards-120213890.html

Those poor souls 😢.

I wonder where they will be displayed?

@Drewnogal - Those poor souls 😢.
@EoT - Agreed. Horrible existence they had. And then they died.


@Drewnogal - I wonder where they will be displayed?
@EoT - not known yet, Drew. Maybe one day we will know

@Drewnogal said
Those poor souls 😢.

I wonder where they will be displayed?

@Earl-of-Trumps said
Haunting new discovery made under floorboards at Auschwitz concentration camp

An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/haunting-discovery-made-under-floorboards-120213890.html

@divegeester said
That is quite poignant; especially here on a chess website.

There is a tragic beauty in those pieces.

In fact I have seen a self-made chess set from Ravensbrück and found alink to that:

https://www.kz-artefakte.de/objektbiografie12-das-schachspiel-von-doris-maase/

@Earl-of-Trumps said
Haunting new discovery made under floorboards at Auschwitz concentration camp

An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/haunting-discovery-made-under-floorboards-120213890.html

@Earl-of-Trumps said
Haunting new discovery made under floorboards at Auschwitz concentration camp

An eerie treasure has been uncovered underneath the floorboards at the Auschwitz concentration camp — 35 well-preserved handmade chess pieces.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/haunting-discovery-made-under-floorboards-120213890.html