Huge Holocaust document cache found in wall cavity

The owners of a Budapest apartment have discovered a huge trove of documents relating to the Hungarian Holocaust in a wall cavity.

The 6,300 papers are part of a 1944 census of Budapest's Jews that was carried out to lay the ground for their extermination.

The documents contain a building-by-building record of residents surveyed and whether or not they were Jewish.

Brigitte Berdefy, one of the owners of the apartment, said that a workman detected the presence of paper after sticking a screwdriver into a crack in a wall. After carefully removing some bricks, she lifted 135lb of documents out from behind the plaster.