They are looking for relatives of a girl murdered during the Holocaust by the DNA of a doll's hair – 05/09/2019

A 78-year-old doll with the hair of an unidentified Jewish girl murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp During the Second World War in 1941, it was the terrible center of attraction of the Toy Museum in the southern province of Antalya.

Jewish authorities, who They want to reach the relatives of the murdered girl through a DNA badysisthey took some of the hair with special permission.

The Anatolian Toy Museum opened in 2017 in the Dokumapark region of Antalya. The square has 13,000 toys and artifacts, including the doll.

Officials traveled to 16 European countries and throughout Anatolia to collect the museum's various works and toys.

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Y in Germany they found the doll that was sold to them by a curator and taken at the museum in Antalya. It is displayed in a glbad cabinet.

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Emrah Ünlüsoy, director of the Anatolian Toy Museum, said the doll "is a very beautiful artifact of the museum." "In Nazi Germany, a thousand Jews were killed every day in Auschwitz, and before they were killed, they cut girls' hair and used them for dolls destined for wealthy Germans. This is the tragedy of dolls with real hair. "

Ünlüsoy says that the Jewish visitors shed tears on seeing the doll.

Representatives from a Jewish civil society organization visited the museum in November 2017 and asked for information about the doll, which has been on display at the museum since 2017.

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"Some visitors to the Jewish community informed their own organizations of civil society, and they contacted us and They asked us for a pinch of doll hair. When we asked them what they would do with that, they said that they wanted to get to the girl's family with DNA tests. We help them with a special permit. "

Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp and it was located in the small Polish town of Oswiecim, 66 kilometers west of Krakow. Between 1940 and 1945, At least 1.3 million people have been sent to the camp and at least 1.1 million have been murdered.

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