Creepy testimonies from the Sobibor extermination camp In Poland: Personal identification tags of four children aged 11-5 from the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands were exposed during archeological excavations conducted at the camp. The tags are a kind of pendants made of metal that the children wore around their necks. They bore their names, their date of birth and the name of the city from which they came.
The extraordinary archeological excavation, which is being carried out in preparation for the establishment of a new visitor center in the camp, is being conducted by the team of archaeologists Vitek thrown from Poland, Yoram Chaimi from the Antiquities Authority and an extorted organ from the Netherlands, with the help of local residents.
The names of the children whose tags were found are Leah Yehudit Delfania, Dedi Zack, Annie Kapper and the boy David Yehuda the 14th.
“As far as we know, pendants with children’s names were only found in the Sobibor camp, and they are not known from any other site,” said archaeologist Yoram Chaimi. “It is interesting to see that the labels are different from each other, so it does not seem to be an orderly initiative, but a private initiative of parents who prepared an identification label for their children. The parents probably wanted to make sure their loved ones could be traced in World War II chaos.”
In order to obtain details about the children, the researchers contacted a center Camp Westerbork, Which during the Holocaust served as a concentration camp for Jews deported from the Netherlands to Eastern Europe, and today serves as a visitor and commemoration center. According to Chaimi, “The metal tags of Leah, Dedi, Annie and David allowed us to connect a face and a story to names, which to this day have been an anonymous line in the Nazi records. The archeological dig gives us an opportunity to tell the story of the victims and honor their memory.”
“I’ve been digging in Sobibor for ten years, and it was my hardest day,” Chaimi added. “We stood with the disks in the field, near the crematoria, called the center and gave them the names. The response was immediate. We received pictures of soft and smiling children on the phone. The hardest part was hearing that one of the children whose tag we held in his hand arrived at Sobibor by 8-year-old. “I was sent here to die alone. I looked at the pictures and asked myself: ‘How can anyone be so cruel?’