12 | Letter smuggled out of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ‘gypsy camp’, written by a German Sintiza. It contains a coded reference to the atrocious conditions at the camp. Somewhere in the middle it says: ‘Special greetings from Baro Nasslein, Elenta and Marepin’: these are Romani words (the language of the Sinti and Roma) for ‘widespread disease, misery and murder’.

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