Through the DNA of a doll's hair, they seek relatives of a girl murdered during the Holocaust

May 9, 2019

A little girl was murdered in Auschwitz in 1941. Her hair was wearing a doll that is in a toy museum in Turkey.

During the World War II in 1941, a girl is killed in a concentration camp of Auschwitz. For 78 years, a doll has the hair of an unidentified Jewish girl and is the focus of attention of the Anatolian Toy Museumin the southern province of Antalya.

Jewish authorities want to reach the families of the murdered girl through a hair DNA badysis. As a result, they took some of the hair with special permission.

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The 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 to collect the museum's various works and toys.

In Germany, they found the doll that had been sold to them by a curator and taken to the Antalya museum. It is displayed in a glbad cabinet.

Emrah Ünlüsoy, director of the Anatolian Toy Museum, He said: "The doll is a very beautiful artifact of the museum"And he said that if the Turkish authorities had humanism and tact, they should never be exhibited.

"In Nazi Germany, about 1,000 Jews are killed every day in Auschwitz. Before killing them, they cut girls' hair and used them for dolls made for rich German children. This is the tragedy of dolls with real hair, "he said, and Ünlüsoy said that Jewish visitors shed tears when they saw the doll.

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

Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp and was located in the small Polish town of Oswiecim, 66 kilometers west of Krakow. Between 1940 and 1945, at least 1.3 million people were sent to the countryside and at least 1.1 million were killed there.