Doll with Hair from Girl Murdered in Holocaust Found at Toy Museum The Anatolian Toy Museum in the southern Turkish city of Antalya, has put on display a 78-year-old baby doll with real human hair from a Jewish girl victim of the Holocaust, as shown on footage from Sunday. According to reports, the girl was killed in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II in 1941. "During the slaughter, the hair of those Jewish little girls were shaved right before they were sent to the gas chambers. The hairs of those little victims were used as hair for these dolls, which were made for the children of the rich German families and the high rank Nazi officers," said Emrah Unlusoy, Director of the Anatolia Toy Museum. According to him, the doll belonged to a collector from Auschwitz. "First he didn't want to give it to us but when he understood that we are representing a museum, he told us that he was keeping this doll since long to be displayed in a museum," he said. The Anatolian Toy Museum opened its doors in 2017 and had over 500,000 visitors from all ages during its first year of operation. Additional story from the web site: The Anatolian toy museum in Antalya, southern Turkey, has a 78-year-old baby doll with real hair from a child Holocaust victim on display, according to a report from Ruptly. The hair that is displayed in a glass case at the toy museum comes from a Jewish girl murdered at Auschwitz in 1941. The doll was purchased at a special exhibition of a curator in Germany and transferred to the Antalya Museum. Emrah Ünlüsoy, director of the Anatolian Toy Museum, said the doll "is a very precious artifact of the museum, and it has a very touching story. In Nazi Germany, some 1,000 Jews were being slaughtered every day in Auschwitz." Before being sent to the gas chambers, girls' hair was cut and used on dolls made for rich German children. "This is the tragedy of dolls with real hair," he said. The local Jewish community, wishing to reach the living members of the murdered girl's family were allowed to take a sample of hair from the doll for DNA analysis, |
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