ID tags unearthed at the site of the death camp reveal that hundreds of the victims had roots in North Africa
Messasud Aknine, from Marseilles, France, was arrested in 1943 and deported to the Drancy internment camp outside Paris. The 73-year-old Jew’s fate was sealed. Before long he was sent to the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland, where the Nazi German invaders killed him in the gas chambers. In all likelihood, no one would have heard about him again were it not for a recent find, deep underground, of a chilling memento.
