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Revealed: German firm used hair from Auschwitz victims in textiles
By Haaretz Service
Tags: israel news, jewish world 

The German auto parts manufacturer Schaeffler used the hair of Auschwitz inmates in order to make textiles during the Second World War, according to Polish researchers.

In an interview with the German Spiegel TV, Dr. Jacek Lachendro, the deputy head of the Auschwitz Museum research department, stated that almost two tons of the hair on display in Auschwitz was found at the Schaeffler factory in Kietrz at the end of the war.

He added that former factory workers had said that in 1943, two trainloads of hair were delivered to the Kietrz factory.
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Polish authorities found it bore traces of Zyklon B, the gas used to murder over 1 million Jews in the Auschwitz gas chambers.

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