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        5/6/2009, Iyar 12, 5769

      The Story Behind Auschwitz Bottle Message


      A note found in a bottle hidden inside an Auschwitz wall hints at the story of six Christians and a Jew whose cooperation helped at least some of them survive the Nazis. The Jewish survivor, Albert Veissid, tells the full story.

      Workers demolishing the wall of a building outside the Nazis’ Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp last week found a message in a bottle written by prisoners 65 years ago. Six Christians included their Jewish friend on the list, apparently in appreciation of the risks he took for them.