“We don't know who did it, but we suspect they were looking for gold or metal.
“The idea that thieves have been here looking for such disturbing mementos is truly shocking.”
The Sobibor camp in south-east Poland was set up in 1942 and 250,000 Jews and non-Jews were murdered there.
This is not the first time the graves of Nazi death camps have been pillaged for treasure. At the end of the Second World War, peasants dug up remains of Nazi victims on the site of the Treblinka extermination camp, hoping to find precious metals in what became known as the “Treblinka Gold Rush”.
