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Sunday, January 8, 2023
Hanukkah menorahs, 400 other Jewish items hidden during WWII found in yard in Poland
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAbout 400 items believed to have been hidden in the ground by their Jewish owners during World War II have been uncovered during home renovation work in a yard in Lodz in central Poland, media reports say.
Unbelievable that it will be told 80 years have passed!!!! The Polish construction workers at Polnoczna 23 in Lodz…
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History experts say that the objects include Hanukkah menorahs and items used in daily life, TVN24 reports.
They are mostly silver-plated tableware, menorahs, and glass containers for cosmetics, according to the regional office for the preservation of historic objects. The office’s experts said on Facebook last week that the objects would be handed over to the city’s archaeology museum.
The stash was found in December and two of the menorahs were lit on December 22, during Hanukkah, an event organized by the city’s Jewish community.
The house at 23 Polnocna Street, where the objects were found, was just outside the perimeter of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto that the occupying Nazi Germans established in Lodz in February 1940 and until August 1944 held about 200,000 Jews from across Europe. Most inmates died there or in concentration camps.
The Times of Israel Community.