Historical treasure in the rubble of Warsaw in 1946

Andrea Löw heads the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Markus Roth is a historian at the Fritz Bauer Institute for the History and Impact of the Holocaust in Frankfurt am Main.

Warsaw in September 1946: Poland's capital lies in rubble and ashes. More than 80 percent of the buildings have been destroyed; things are particularly bad in the north, where the ghetto built by the National Socialists was located. While reconstruction is underway in other districts, there are hardly any remaining building remains that could serve as foundations. But in this desert of rubble lies a historical treasure.