Rare pendant almost identical to one owned by Anne Frank dug up at Nazi death camp

German-Jewish diarist Anne Frank was known for the diary she kept while hiding from the Nazis.
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Francesca Gillett16 January 2017

A necklace thought to have links to Anne Frank has been dug up at a notorious Nazi death camp.

The World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Israel said researchers excavating the Sobibór extermination camp in Poland found a pendant identical to the one belonging to diarist Anne Frank.

The memorial centre Yad Vashem said it has established the pendant belonged to a Jewish girl called Karoline Cohn who died at the camp.

Historians have found no other pendants like those belonging to the two girls.

Valuable: A pendant has been found which is almost identical to one belonging to Anne Frank.
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Researchers now want to find out whether the two girls – who both were born in Frankfurt in 1929 – were related.

The triangular pendant has the Hebrew words “Mazel Tov” in one side and the date of Miss Cohn’s birth as well as the three Stars of David.

The Sobibor camp, in eastern Poland, was closed and bulldozed with earth by the Nazis after an uprising in 1943 but archaeologists have been excavating the site since 2007.

More than a quarter of million Jews were killed at the camp.

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