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Discovery of a Shell

Workers discovered an unexploded shell while doing excavation work on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, near the building that once held the Carmelite Sisters' convent.

Police were called in from the Powiat police station in Oswięcim. The police, in turn, notified the military sappers unit in Cracow. At the same time, the area was closed off by the preservation officer and the security guards employed at the Museum. The shell probably dates from the Second World War (wod).